1-1 By: McCall (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 1506 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1999, reported favorably, as 1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Nixon 1-8 Amend House Bill 1506, in SECTION 1 of the bill, in Section 1-9 263.152(a), Local Government Code (House engrossed printing page 1, 1-10 Line 22), by inserting the following after "within the county": 1-11 "that is selling the surplus or salvage property" 1-12 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-13 AN ACT 1-14 relating to the disposal of surplus county property. 1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-16 SECTION 1. Section 263.152(a), Local Government Code, is 1-17 amended to read as follows: 1-18 (a) The commissioners court of a county may: 1-19 (1) periodically sell the county's surplus or salvage 1-20 property by competitive bid or auction, except that competitive 1-21 bidding or an auction is not necessary if the purchaser is another 1-22 county or a political subdivision within the county; 1-23 (2) offer the property as a trade-in for new property 1-24 of the same general type if the commissioners court considers that 1-25 action to be in the best interests of the county; or 1-26 (3) order any of the property to be destroyed or 1-27 otherwise disposed of as worthless if the commissioners court 1-28 undertakes to sell that property under Subdivision (1) and is 1-29 unable to do so because no bids are made. 1-30 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *