78R19694 PAM-D
Suspending limitations on conference committee
jurisdiction, H.B. 2044
By: Staples S.R. No. 1035
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 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:
Senate Rule 12.03(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.