By McClendon                                          H.B. No. 1996
         76R7127 PAM-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the General
 1-3     Services Commission to Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  The General Services Commission shall
 1-6     transfer to Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in San
 1-7     Antonio, the real property described by Subsection (d) of this
 1-8     section for consideration described by Subsection (b) of this
 1-9     section.
1-10           (b)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection
1-11     (a)  of this section shall be in the form of an agreement between
1-12     the parties that requires Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
1-13     to use the property for a purpose that benefits the public interest
1-14     of the state.  Under the terms of the agreement described by this
1-15     subsection:
1-16                 (1)  Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church may use
1-17     the property transferred under this Act only for a purpose that
1-18     benefits the public interest of the state; and
1-19                 (2)  ownership of the property automatically reverts to
1-20     the General Services Commission if Bethel African Methodist
1-21     Episcopal Church no longer uses the property for a purpose that
1-22     benefits the public interest of the state.
1-23           (c)  The General Services Commission shall transfer the
1-24     property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  The instrument
 2-1     of transfer must include a provision that:
 2-2                 (1)  requires Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
 2-3     to use the property for a purpose that benefits the public interest
 2-4     of the state; and
 2-5                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property
 2-6     automatically reverts to the General Services Commission if Bethel
 2-7     African Methodist Episcopal Church no longer uses the property for
 2-8     a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.
 2-9           (d)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
2-10     section refers is described as follows:
2-11     Lot 1 and the West 25 feet of Lot 2, Block 9, New City Block 582,
2-12     in the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.