1-1     By:  Flores (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)              H.B. No. 2147
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 13, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2147              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the identification of real property owned by the state
1-11     that is suitable for the development of affordable housing.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-15           (e)  The division shall furnish an appraisal to the Texas
1-16     Department of Housing and Community Affairs of properties that have
1-17     been identified as unused or substantially underused.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, is
1-19     amended by amending Subsection (b) to read as follows:
1-20           (b)  The draft report shall be submitted to the State
1-21     Purchasing and General Services Commission which shall further
1-22     evaluate the  potential use of the property by another state agency
1-23     or department.  The draft report shall also be submitted, at the
1-24     same time as it is furnished to the commission, to each agency that
1-25     owns or holds in trust property that is the subject of the draft
1-26     report, and to the Texas Department of Housing and Community
1-27     Affairs.  The commission may comment on any findings or
1-28     recommendations made by the commissioner and may make additional
1-29     recommendations regarding the use of the property.  The commission
1-30     shall complete the review of the draft report within 60 days of the
1-31     receipt of the report and forward the comments to the commissioner.
1-32     The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs may comment
1-33     on any findings or recommendations made by the commissioner and may
1-34     make additional recommendations regarding the suitability of the
1-35     property for affordable housing.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.
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