By:  Chavez (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                              H.B. No. 3333
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2005; 
May 16, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Intergovernmental Relations; May 21, 2005, reported favorably, as 
amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 21, 2005, sent 
to printer.)


COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                                By:  Madla


Amend H.B. 3333 (engrossed version) as follows:                             
	(1)  In the recital to SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, lines 34 
and 35, strike "Sections 202.021(b) and (c), Transportation Code, 
are  "and  substitute"  Section  202.021(b),  Transportation  Code,  
is".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Subsection (b), 
Section 202.021, Transportation Code (page 1, line 40), between "
landowners" and the comma, insert "of Tract 11, Block 49 of the 
Ysleta Grant located in El Paso County".
	(3)  Strike amended Subsection (c), Section 202.021, 
Transportation Code (page 1, lines 45-54).
	(4)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS as appropriate:
	SECTION ___.  Subchapter B, Chapter 202, Transportation 
Code, is amended by adding Section 202.034 to read as follows:
	Sec. 202.034.  SALE OR CONVEYANCE OF BRIDGE.  (a)  The 
department shall sell or convey the part of the Presidio 
International Bridge owned by this state to the City of Presidio and 
Presidio County.
	(b)  A sale or conveyance under this section must comply with 
all state and federal rules governing the transaction.


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the sale or transfer of interest of real property to 
certain federally recognized Indian tribes.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 202.021(b) and (c), Transportation 
Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), real property 
shall be transferred or sold with the following priorities:
		(1)  to a governmental entity with the authority to 
condemn the property; [or]
		(2)  to abutting or adjoining landowners, including a 
federally recognized Indian tribe whose reservation is located 
within counties of this state bordering the Republic of Mexico and 
that is not subject to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; or
		(3)  to the general public.                                            
	(c)  A highway right-of-way shall be transferred or sold with 
the following priorities:
		(1)  to a governmental entity with the authority to 
condemn the property;   
		(2)  to abutting or adjoining landowners; [or]               
		(3)  to a federally recognized Indian tribe whose 
reservation is located within counties of this state bordering the 
Republic of Mexico and that is not subject to the federal Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act; or
		(4)  to the general public.                                            
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.



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