78R19673 PAM-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. 2044 (McReynolds/Staples)







By:  McReynolds                                       H.R. No. 1795


R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Texas, 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That House Rule 13, 
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, 
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to 
resolve the differences on House Bill No. 2044, relating to the 
powers and duties of the General Land Office and the accounting and 
disposition of state-owned real property, to consider and take 
action on the following matter:
	House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit the 
committee to amend text that is not in disagreement in SECTION 16 of 
the bill, in Section 31.1572, Natural Resources Code, as added by 
the bill, to read as follows:
	Sec. 31.1572.  REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS BY PARKS AND 
WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN AREAS.  (a)  The Parks and 
Wildlife Department may not offer for sale real property it owns or 
controls if the real property is located in a county:
		(1)  with a population of one million or more; and                     
		(2)  in which at least two municipalities with a 
population of 300,000 or more are located.
	(b)  This section expires September 1, 2004.                            
	Explanation: The changed text is necessary to narrow the 
scope of the authority granted to the Parks and Wildlife Department 
to dispose of state-owned real property.