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 that is selling
1-11     the surplus or salvage property;
1-12                 (2)  offer the property as a trade-in for new property
1-13     of the same general type if the commissioners court considers that
1-14     action to be in the best interests of the county; or
1-15                 (3)  order any of the property to be destroyed or
1-16     otherwise disposed of as worthless if the commissioners court
1-17     undertakes to sell that property under Subdivision (1) and is
1-18     unable to do so because no bids are made.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1506 was passed by the House on April
         8, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1506 on May 13, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1506 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 10, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor