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  84R17173 YDB-D
 
  By: Guillen H.B. No. 229
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 229:
 
  By:  Phillips C.S.H.B. No. 229
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the disposition of certain surplus motor vehicles and
  other law enforcement equipment by the Texas Facilities Commission.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 2175, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 2175.308 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2175.308.  EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY OF DEPARTMENT
  OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of
  this chapter, if the commission determines that this state's
  efforts to secure this state's international border and combat
  transnational crime will sufficiently benefit from the donation of
  the surplus motor vehicles and other law enforcement equipment of
  the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas to a municipal
  or county law enforcement agency in an economically disadvantaged
  area of this state, the commission may transfer the property to the
  agency at a price or for other consideration agreed to by the
  commission and the agency.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.