By Ellis                                               S.B. No. 803
         76R3453 MLS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the sale or lease of underused lands by the state.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 31.153(a) and (b), Natural Resources
 1-5     Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  All real property owned by the state shall be accounted
 1-7     for by the state agency that possesses the property.  The state
 1-8     agency shall, not later than the last day of each fiscal year,
 1-9     provide the division with a report that includes the total acreage
1-10     owned or managed by the agency.
1-11           (b)  Each state agency shall maintain a record of each item
1-12     of real property it possesses.  The record must include the
1-13     following information and[, on the request of the division,] shall
1-14     be furnished to the division not later than the last day of each
1-15     fiscal year:
1-16                 (1)  a description of each item of property by
1-17     reference to a volume number, and page or image number or numbers
1-18     of the official public records of real property in a particular
1-19     county, or if not applicable, by a legal description;
1-20                 (2)  the date of purchase of the property, if
1-21     applicable;
1-22                 (3)  the purchase price of the property, if applicable;
1-23                 (4)  the name of the state agency holding title to the
1-24     property for the state;
 2-1                 (5)  a description of the current uses of the property
 2-2     and of the projected future uses of the property during the next 15
 2-3     years; [and]
 2-4                 (6)  a description of each building or other
 2-5     improvement located on the property;
 2-6                 (7)  the fair market value of the property, including
 2-7     any building or improvement located on the property; and
 2-8                 (8)  a description of the procedures the state must
 2-9     follow to sell or lease the property.
2-10           SECTION 2.  Sections 31.157(b) and (c), Natural Resources
2-11     Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-12           (b)  The draft report shall be submitted to the State
2-13     Purchasing and General Services Commission which shall further
2-14     evaluate the potential use of the property by another state agency
2-15     or department.  The draft report shall also be submitted, at the
2-16     same time as it is furnished to the commission, to each agency that
2-17     owns or holds in trust property that is the subject of the draft
2-18     report.  Each agency may comment on the findings or
2-19     recommendations, including the agency's specific reasons for
2-20     supporting or opposing the recommendations and detailing any
2-21     efforts the agency has made in attempting to put the property to
2-22     use or sell or lease the property.  The commission may comment on
2-23     any findings or recommendations made by the commissioner and may
2-24     make additional recommendations regarding the use of the property.
2-25     The commission shall complete the review of the draft report within
2-26     60 days of the receipt of the report and forward the comments to
2-27     the commissioner.
 3-1           (c)  The commissioner shall prepare and issue a final report
 3-2     incorporating the recommendations of the commission regarding use
 3-3     of the property by another state agency and addressing all comments
 3-4     received from the commission and any state agency.  The report must
 3-5     include the most recent fair market value estimates for any
 3-6     potential sale or lease of the property.
 3-7           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 3-8     applies only to a report issued under Section 31.157, Natural
 3-9     Resources Code, on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
3-10     report issued under Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, before
3-11     the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
3-12     the time the report was issued, and that law is continued in effect
3-13     for that purpose.
3-14           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.