By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 2949
         76R12447 PAM-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the General
 1-3     Services Commission to the Austin Revitalization Authority.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  The General Services Commission may convey,
 1-6     on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the real property
 1-7     described by Subsection (f) of this section to the Austin
 1-8     Revitalization Authority.
 1-9           (b)  Consideration for the conveyance authorized by this
1-10     section must be in cash in an amount equal to the fair market value
1-11     of the property as established by an independent appraisal obtained
1-12     by the General Services Commission.  The purchase and sale
1-13     agreement relating to the conveyance must provide for the closing
1-14     to occur at the mutual convenience of the parties and may require
1-15     other terms negotiated by the General Services Commission and the
1-16     Austin Revitalization Authority.
1-17           (c)  The General Services Commission may transfer the real
1-18     property only by a special warranty deed.
1-19           (d)  Sections 31.158 and 31.159, Natural Resources Code, do
1-20     not apply to the conveyance authorized by this section.
1-21           (e)  The General Services Commission shall deposit the
1-22     proceeds from the conveyance authorized by this section to the
1-23     credit of the General Services Commission account.  The General
1-24     Services Commission account is an account in the general revenue
 2-1     fund that may be appropriated only to the General Services
 2-2     Commission.
 2-3           (f)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
 2-4     section refers is described as follows:
 2-5           ALL OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND BEING A
 2-6           PORTION OF THE SUBDIVISION OF OUTLOT NO. 55 IN DIVISION
 2-7           B IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, PLATTED
 2-8           MAY 7, 1875 BY DIRECTION OF GEORGE L. ROBERTSON,
 2-9           RECORDED IN VOL. Z, PG. 599 OF THE DEED OF RECORDS OF
2-10           TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, SAID TRACT BEING THAT CERTAIN
2-11           TRACT DESCRIBED IN DEED CONVEYED TO J. C. RUBY AND JOE
2-12           M. TEAGUE, DATED FEB. 27, 1962 RECORDED IN VOL. 2416,
2-13           PG. 172 OF THE TRAVIS COUNTY DEED RECORDS, AND BEING
2-14           MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS AS
2-15           FOLLOWS:
2-16           BEGINNING at an iron disk found for an angle point of the
2-17     east ROW line of Interregional Highway FOR A POINT OF REFERENCE;
2-18           THENCE N 18 degrees 47' 00" E, 21.04' with the east ROW line
2-19     of Interregional Highway to an iron rod set for the southwest
2-20     corner of said tract FOR THE POINT OF BEGINNING;
2-21           THENCE N 18 degrees 47' 00" E, 330.86' with the east ROW line
2-22     of Interregional Highway to an iron rod set for the northwest
2-23     corner of said tract;
2-24           THENCE N 80 degrees 30' 00" E, 229.30' with the south ROW
2-25     line of East 12th St. and the north line of said tract to an iron
2-26     rod set;
2-27           THENCE S 01 degrees 45' 00" W, 318.70' with the west ROW line
 3-1     of Branch St.  same being the east line of said tract to an iron
 3-2     rod set for and angle point;
 3-3           THENCE S 24 degrees 16' 00" W, 44.93' with the west ROW line
 3-4     of Branch St.  same being the east line of said tract to an iron
 3-5     rod set for the southeast corner of said tract;
 3-6           THENCE N 88 degrees 25' 00" W, 304.61' with the north line of
 3-7     Parcel A and the South line of Parcel I, as recorded in Vol. 3793
 3-8     Pg. 1043 in the deed records of Travis County, Texas to the POINT
 3-9     OF BEGINNING, and containing in all 2.09 acres of land, more or
3-10     less.
3-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.