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.
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