By McCall                                             H.B. No. 1506
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the disposal of surplus county property.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 263.152(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The commissioners court of a county may:
 1-7                 (1)  periodically sell the county's surplus or salvage
 1-8     property by competitive bid or auction, except that competitive
 1-9     bidding or an auction is not necessary if the purchaser is another
1-10     county or a political subdivision within the county;
1-11                 (2)  offer the property as a trade-in for new property
1-12     of the same general type if the commissioners court considers that
1-13     action to be in the best interests of the county; or
1-14                 (3)  order any of the property to be destroyed or
1-15     otherwise disposed of as worthless if the commissioners court
1-16     undertakes to sell that property under Subdivision (1) and is
1-17     unable to do so because no bids are made.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.