1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the sale or lease by a county of real property in
 1-3     connection with certain economic development programs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 381.004, Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (f) and
 1-7     (g) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  The commissioners court may:
 1-9                 (1)  contract with another entity for the
1-10     administration of the program;
1-11                 (2)  authorize the program to be administered on the
1-12     basis of county commissioner precincts;
1-13                 (3)  use county employees, real property, or funds for
1-14     the program; and
1-15                 (4)  accept contributions, gifts, or other resources to
1-16     develop and administer the program.
1-17           (f)  The commissioners court may sell or lease real property
1-18     of the county for use in a program established under this section
1-19     if the county acquired the property on or before September 1, 1999.
1-20     In selling or  leasing the property, the commissioners court may
1-21     negotiate directly with a business participating in the program.  A
1-22     sale or lease of real property under this subsection is exempt from
1-23     the requirements of Sections 263.001, 263.007, and 272.001(a).
1-24           (g)  The commissioners court may sell real property under
 2-1     Subsection (f) for an amount less than the appraised fair market
 2-2     value of the property only as part of a transaction that allows the
 2-3     county to recover benefits of or the value of the benefits of the
 2-4     property's use if the business that purchases the property fails to
 2-5     comply with the standards of a program established under this
 2-6     section.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
 2-8     to an agreement for the sale or lease of real property of a county
 2-9     that is entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
2-10     An agreement for the sale or lease of real property of a county
2-11     that is entered into before the effective date of this Act is
2-12     governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
2-13     date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2388 was passed by the House on May
         12, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2388 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor