1-1     By:  Dunnam, McClendon (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)      H.B. No. 3161
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran
 1-4     Affairs and Military Installations; May 11, 1999, reported
 1-5     favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 11, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to disposition of public property in a readjustment zone.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 2310.410, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 2310.410. DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY IN READJUSTMENT
1-14     ZONE.  (a)  After an area is designated as a readjustment zone, the
1-15     state, a municipality, or a county that owns a surplus building or
1-16     vacant land in the zone may dispose of the building or land by:
1-17                 (1)  selling the building or land at a public auction;
1-18                 (2)  selling the building or land without notice or
1-19     bidding as provided by Subsection (d); or
1-20                 (3) [(2)]  establishing an urban homestead program
1-21     described by Subsection (e) [(c)].
1-22           (b)  A municipality or county may sell a surplus building or
1-23     vacant land in the readjustment zone at less than fair market value
1-24     if the governing body of the municipality or county by ordinance or
1-25     order, as appropriate, adopts criteria that specify the conditions
1-26     and circumstances under which the sale may occur and the public
1-27     purpose to be achieved by the sale.  [The building or land may be
1-28     sold to a buyer who is not the highest bidder if the criteria and
1-29     public purpose specified in the ordinance or order are satisfied.]
1-30     A copy of the ordinance or order must be filed with the department
1-31     not later than the day on which the sale occurs.
1-32           (c)  If the surplus building or vacant land is sold at a
1-33     public auction, the  building or land may be sold to a buyer who is
1-34     not the highest bidder if the criteria and public purpose specified
1-35     in the ordinance or order adopted under Subsection (b) are
1-36     satisfied.
1-37           (d)  The surplus building or vacant land may be sold without
1-38     complying with notice or bidding requirements if the criteria and
1-39     public purpose specified in the ordinance or order adopted under
1-40     Subsection (b) are satisfied.
1-41           (e) [(c)]  An urban homestead program must provide that:
1-42                 (1)  the state, municipality, or county is to sell to
1-43     an individual a residence or part of a residence that it owns for
1-44     an amount not to exceed $100;
1-45                 (2)  as a condition of the sale, the individual must
1-46     agree by covenant in the deed conveying the residence to live in
1-47     the residence for at least seven years and to renovate or remodel
1-48     the residence to meet the level of maintenance stated in an
1-49     agreement between the individual and the governmental entity; and
1-50                 (3)  after the individual satisfies the seven-year
1-51     residency and property improvement requirements of the agreement,
1-52     the governmental entity shall assign the residence to the
1-53     individual.
1-54           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-55     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60     passage, and it is so enacted.
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