76R14359 E                           
         By Shields                                            H.B. No. 3700
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3700:
         By Walker                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3700
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to notice of intent to use real property for a public
 1-3     purpose.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subtitle E, Title 10, Government Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Chapter 2206 to read as follows:
 1-7               CHAPTER 2206.  NOTICE OF PUBLIC USE OF PROPERTY
 1-8           Sec. 2206.001.  APPLICATION.  (a)  This chapter applies to
 1-9     the United States, this state, a political subdivision of this
1-10     state, or a nonprofit corporation or a subsidiary organization of a
1-11     nonprofit corporation that intends to, in a municipality with a
1-12     population of one million or more:
1-13                 (1)  buy or lease, as lessee, real property; or
1-14                 (2)  operate, on or from a piece of real property, a
1-15     program that receives government assistance.
1-16           (b)  This chapter does not apply to real property that is
1-17     used or will be used to provide services to persons at least 75
1-18     percent of whom are elderly.
1-19           Sec. 2206.002.  NOTICE REQUIREMENT.  Not later than the 30th
1-20     day before the date an entity subject to this chapter executes a
1-21     contract to purchase or lease real property in this state or the
1-22     date the entity begins to operate, on or from a piece of real
1-23     property in this state, a program that receives government
1-24     assistance, the entity shall provide notice in the form required by
 2-1     this chapter by first-class mail to any resident or owner of real
 2-2     property any part of which is located within one-fourth mile of a
 2-3     boundary of the property that the entity intends to purchase,
 2-4     lease, or use.
 2-5           Sec. 2206.003.  FORM OF NOTICE.  The notice must be in the
 2-6     following form:
 2-7           NOTICE OF GOVERNMENT OR NONPROFIT CORPORATION INTENT TO
 2-8     PURCHASE, LEASE, OR USE REAL PROPERTY.  _______________ INTENDS TO
 2-9     PURCHASE, LEASE, OR OTHERWISE USE PROPERTY LOCATED IN _________
2-10     COUNTY, WITH A STREET ADDRESS OF ________________________, FOR THE
2-11     PURPOSE OF _____________________________________________.  THE
2-12     PURCHASE, LEASE, OR USE OF THE PROPERTY FOR THE STATED PURPOSE WILL
2-13     BEGIN ON OR AFTER ____/____/____.
2-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-15     applies only to an entity subject to Section 2206.001, Government
2-16     Code, as added by this Act, that executes a contract to purchase or
2-17     lease real property in this state or that begins to operate, on or
2-18     from a piece of real property in this state, a program that
2-19     receives government assistance, on or after the effective date of
2-20     this Act.
2-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.