By Pitts                                                H.B. No. 42
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to requiring the state to provide notice to persons who
 1-3     have preference right to purchase certain state land of the state's
 1-4     intent to offer the land for sale.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 31.309(a), Natural Resources Code, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (a)  A person or the person's heirs who conveyed land to the
 1-9     state for use by the superconducting super collider research
1-10     facility has a preference right to purchase the same tract of land
1-11     previously conveyed before the tract is offered for sale by the
1-12     state to any other person.  Not earlier than the 90th or later than
1-13     the 60th day before the date the state intends to offer the tract
1-14     for sale to another person, the  land office shall notify the
1-15     person entitled to a preference right of the date on which the
1-16     state intends to offer the tract for sale.  The person entitled to
1-17     a preference right may exercise the preference right granted by
1-18     this section at any time before the date provided in the notice.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.