76R10509 PAM-F
By Gray H.B. No. 2823
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2823:
By Turner of Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 2823
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sale of real property by counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 263.008, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 263.008. REAL ESTATE BROKER [REALTOR] AGREEMENTS AND
1-7 FEES FOR THE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) In this section, "real
1-8 estate broker" means a person licensed as a real estate broker
1-9 under The Real Estate License Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas
1-10 Civil Statutes).
1-11 (b) The commissioners court of a county may contract with a
1-12 real estate broker [person licensed under The Real Estate License
1-13 Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)] to sell a tract
1-14 of real property that is owned by the county.
1-15 (c) [(b)] The commissioners court of a county may pay a fee
1-16 if a real estate broker [person licensed under The Real Estate
1-17 License Act (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)]
1-18 produces a ready, willing, and able buyer to purchase a tract of
1-19 real property [that is owned by the county].
1-20 (d) If a contract made under Subsection (b) requires a real
1-21 estate broker to list the tract of real property for sale for at
1-22 least 30 days with a multiple-listing service used by other real
1-23 estate brokers in the county, the commissioners court on or after
1-24 the 30th day after the date the property is listed may sell the
2-1 tract of real property to a ready, willing, and able buyer who is
2-2 produced by any real estate broker using the multiple-listing
2-3 service and who submits the highest cash offer.
2-4 (e) The commissioners court may sell a tract of real
2-5 property under this section without complying with the requirements
2-6 for conducting a public auction, including the requirements
2-7 prescribed by Section 263.001.
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.