1-1     By:  Solis of Cameron (Senate Sponsor - Madla)        H.B. No. 2388
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 13, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the sale or lease by a county of real property in
1-10     connection with certain economic development programs.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 381.004, Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (f) and
1-14     (g) to read as follows:
1-15           (c)  The commissioners court may:
1-16                 (1)  contract with another entity for the
1-17     administration of the program;
1-18                 (2)  authorize the program to be administered on the
1-19     basis of county commissioner precincts;
1-20                 (3)  use county employees, real property, or funds for
1-21     the program; and
1-22                 (4)  accept contributions, gifts, or other resources to
1-23     develop and administer the program.
1-24           (f)  The commissioners court may sell or lease real property
1-25     of the county for use in a program established under this section
1-26     if the county acquired the property on or before September 1, 1999.
1-27     In selling or  leasing the property, the commissioners court may
1-28     negotiate directly with a business participating in the program.  A
1-29     sale or lease of real property under this subsection is exempt from
1-30     the requirements of Sections 263.001, 263.007, and 272.001(a).
1-31           (g)  The commissioners court may sell real property under
1-32     Subsection (f) for an amount less than the appraised fair market
1-33     value of the property only as part of a transaction that allows the
1-34     county to recover benefits of or the value of the benefits of the
1-35     property's use if the business that purchases the property fails to
1-36     comply with the standards of a program established under this
1-37     section.
1-38           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-39     to an agreement for the sale or lease of real property of a county
1-40     that is entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-41     An agreement for the sale or lease of real property of a county
1-42     that is entered into before the effective date of this Act is
1-43     governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
1-44     date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-45           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-46     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-50     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-51     passage, and it is so enacted.
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