1-1     By:  Dukes (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)              H.B. No. 2735
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
 1-4     Resources; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of the General Services Commission to
 1-9     grant certain interests in certain real property owned by the
1-10     state.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 2166.056, Government Code, is amended to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 2166.056.  GRANT OF EASEMENT, FRANCHISE, LICENSE, OR
1-15     RIGHT-OF-WAY; JOINT USE AGREEMENTS.  (a)  The commission may grant
1-16     a permanent or temporary easement, franchise, license, or
1-17     right-of-way over and on the land of a state agency on a project
1-18     administered by the commission  or enter into a joint use agreement
1-19     regarding the land if it is necessary to ensure the efficient and
1-20     expeditious construction, improvement,  renovation, use, or
1-21     operation of a building or facility of the project.
1-22           (b)  The commission shall submit an easement or right-of-way
1-23     that may extend beyond the period of construction to the asset
1-24     management division of the General Land Office for written comment
1-25     not later than the 30th day before the date it is granted by the
1-26     commission.  The commission may enter into a joint use agreement or
1-27     grant a franchise or license at the commission's discretion and for
1-28     the period determined by the commission if the commission
1-29     determines that the joint use agreement, franchise, or license is
1-30     in the best interests of the state and if adequate consideration is
1-31     received by the state under the agreement or under the terms of the
1-32     franchise or license.
1-33           (c)  The commission shall consider comments submitted by the
1-34     asset management division of the General Land Office before
1-35     granting an easement or right-of-way.
1-36           SECTION 2.  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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