1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the identification of real property owned by the state
 1-3     that is suitable for the development of affordable housing.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  The division shall furnish an appraisal to the Texas
 1-8     Department of Housing and Community Affairs of properties that have
 1-9     been identified as unused or substantially underused.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, is
1-11     amended by amending Subsection (b) to read as follows:
1-12           (b)  The draft report shall be submitted to the State
1-13     Purchasing and General Services Commission which shall further
1-14     evaluate the  potential use of the property by another state agency
1-15     or department.  The draft report shall also be submitted, at the
1-16     same time as it is furnished to the commission, to each agency that
1-17     owns or holds in trust property that is the subject of the draft
1-18     report, and to the Texas Department of Housing and Community
1-19     Affairs.  The commission may comment on any findings or
1-20     recommendations made by the commissioner and may make additional
1-21     recommendations regarding the use of the property.  The commission
1-22     shall complete the review of the draft report within 60 days of the
1-23     receipt of the report and forward the comments to the commissioner.
1-24     The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs may comment
 2-1     on any findings or recommendations made by the commissioner and may
 2-2     make additional recommendations regarding the suitability of the
 2-3     property for affordable housing.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2147 was passed by the House on April
         23, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 2147 on May 27, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 2147 on May 29, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2147 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         2147 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor