By Lengefeld                                          H.B. No. 1808
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                                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:
1-10                       (A)  a municipality any portion of which is
1-11     located in the county; or
1-12                       (B)  another county;
1-13                 (2)  offer the property as a trade-in for new property
1-14     of the same general type if the commissioners court considers that
1-15     action to be in the best interests of the county; or
1-16                 (3)  order any of the property to be destroyed or
1-17     otherwise disposed of as worthless if the commissioners court
1-18     undertakes to sell that property under Subdivision (1) and is
1-19     unable to do so because no bids are made.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.