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