By Greenberg H.B. No. 2094
76R3074 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the planning process involved in the development of
1-3 real property owned by the state.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 31.154, Natural Resources Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 31.154. PROPERTY INVENTORY; MASTER PLAN. (a) The
1-8 division shall review and keep inventory records of all real
1-9 property owned by the state. The division shall compile the
1-10 inventory records from the information submitted to the division
1-11 under Sections 31.153 and 31.155 [of this subchapter].
1-12 (b) Using the inventory records, the division shall create a
1-13 master plan for all real property owned by the state. The division
1-14 shall update the master plan each year the division conducts a
1-15 property review under Section 31.156.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 31.156(b), Natural Resources Code, is
1-17 amended to read as follows:
1-18 (b) The division shall identify the real property not being
1-19 used or being substantially underused and make recommendations to
1-20 the commissioner regarding the use of the property or regarding a
1-21 real estate transaction involving the property. The
1-22 recommendations shall include an analysis of the highest and best
1-23 use to which the property may legally be placed. It shall include
1-24 recommendations for alternative uses of the property addressing
2-1 potential for commercial or agricultural lease of the property or
2-2 any other real estate transaction or use that the division may deem
2-3 to be in the best interest of the state. The division shall seek
2-4 local input on the recommendations regarding the use of the
2-5 property or any real estate transaction involving the property.
2-6 The division shall then solicit proposals and shall accept any
2-7 unsolicited proposals about real estate transactions involving the
2-8 property that would be of significant benefit to the state.
2-9 SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Natural Resources Code,
2-10 is amended by adding Section 31.1565 to read as follows:
2-11 Sec. 31.1565. PROPOSAL REVIEW COMMITTEE. (a) If the
2-12 division makes recommendations and solicits proposals for
2-13 alternative uses of certain real property under Section 31.156(b),
2-14 the division shall form a proposal review committee for each real
2-15 estate transaction.
2-16 (b) A proposal review committee shall be composed of at
2-17 least one representative from the following groups:
2-18 (1) the state agency that possesses or controls the
2-19 real property that is the subject of the proposed real estate
2-20 transaction;
2-21 (2) each municipality in which the real property that
2-22 is the subject of the proposed real estate transaction is located;
2-23 and
2-24 (3) the neighborhood or geographic area surrounding
2-25 the real property that is the subject of the proposed real estate
2-26 transaction.
2-27 (c) The proposal review committee shall review each proposed
3-1 real estate transaction and obtain input to the extent possible
3-2 from all persons potentially affected by the proposed real estate
3-3 transaction. The committee shall provide the division with written
3-4 recommendations that detail which proposals should be accepted and
3-5 which proposals should be rejected and the reasons supporting the
3-6 recommended action. The division must submit the recommendations
3-7 of the committee to the commissioner under Section 31.156(c).
3-8 SECTION 4. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-9 (b) Sections 2 and 3 of this Act apply only to a review of
3-10 the real property of a state agency under Section 31.156, Natural
3-11 Resources Code, begun on or after the effective date of this Act.
3-12 A review of real property that began before the effective date of
3-13 this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the review
3-14 began, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
3-15 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.