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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor