1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the General Services Commission to 1-3 grant certain interests in certain real property owned by the 1-4 state. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2166.056, Government Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 2166.056. GRANT OF EASEMENT, FRANCHISE, LICENSE, OR 1-9 RIGHT-OF-WAY; JOINT USE AGREEMENTS. (a) The commission may grant 1-10 a permanent or temporary easement, franchise, license, or 1-11 right-of-way over and on the land of a state agency on a project 1-12 administered by the commission or enter into a joint use agreement 1-13 regarding the land if it is necessary to ensure the efficient and 1-14 expeditious construction, improvement, renovation, use, or 1-15 operation of a building or facility of the project. 1-16 (b) The commission shall submit an easement or right-of-way 1-17 that may extend beyond the period of construction to the asset 1-18 management division of the General Land Office for written comment 1-19 not later than the 30th day before the date it is granted by the 1-20 commission. The commission may enter into a joint use agreement or 1-21 grant a franchise or license at the commission's discretion and for 1-22 the period determined by the commission if the commission 1-23 determines that the joint use agreement, franchise, or license is 1-24 in the best interests of the state and if adequate consideration is 2-1 received by the state under the agreement or under the terms of the 2-2 franchise or license. 2-3 (c) The commission shall consider comments submitted by the 2-4 asset management division of the General Land Office before 2-5 granting an easement or right-of-way. 2-6 (d) The commission shall approve all joint use agreements, 2-7 franchises, and licenses under this section by a majority vote in 2-8 an open meeting. 2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2735 was passed by the House on May 4, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2735 on May 27, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2735 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor