1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 664 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999; 1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; May 3, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the sale of certain land by the Texas Department of 1-9 Health. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 401.267, Health and Safety Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 401.267. ACQUISITION AND SALE OF CERTAIN BY-PRODUCT 1-14 MATERIALS AND SITES. (a) The department may acquire by-product 1-15 material and fee simple title in land, affected mineral rights, 1-16 and buildings at which that by-product material is disposed of and 1-17 abandoned so that the by-product material and property can be 1-18 managed in a manner consistent with protecting public health, 1-19 safety, and the environment. 1-20 (b) The department may sell land acquired under this section 1-21 at the land's fair market value after the department has taken 1-22 corrective action to restore the land to a condition that does not 1-23 compromise the public health or safety or the environment. The 1-24 General Land Office shall negotiate and close a transaction under 1-25 this subsection on behalf of the department using procedures under 1-26 Section 31.158(c), Natural Resources Code. Proceeds from the 1-27 transaction shall be deposited in the Texas capital trust fund. 1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-34 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-35 * * * * *