BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 1288 By: Rose County Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties note that professional brokers are better equipped to efficiently advertise and list tracts of county-owned real property for lease than the applicable county. H.B. 1288 seeks to provide a county with the authority to use such a broker for leasing certain county property. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 1288 amends the Local Government Code to authorize the commissioners court of a county to contract with a broker to lease a tract of real property that is owned by the county in the same manner that the commissioners court may contract with a broker to sell such a tract. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 1288
By: Rose
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 1288
By: Rose
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties note that professional brokers are better equipped to efficiently advertise and list tracts of county-owned real property for lease than the applicable county. H.B. 1288 seeks to provide a county with the authority to use such a broker for leasing certain county property.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 1288 amends the Local Government Code to authorize the commissioners court of a county to contract with a broker to lease a tract of real property that is owned by the county in the same manner that the commissioners court may contract with a broker to sell such a tract.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note that professional brokers are better equipped to efficiently advertise and list tracts of county-owned real property for lease than the applicable county. H.B. 1288 seeks to provide a county with the authority to use such a broker for leasing certain county property.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 1288 amends the Local Government Code to authorize the commissioners court of a county to contract with a broker to lease a tract of real property that is owned by the county in the same manner that the commissioners court may contract with a broker to sell such a tract.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.