H.B. No. 2278
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the transfer of certain facilities between state
    1-3  agencies.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 496.0031 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 496.0031.  TRANSFER OF FACILITIES.  (a)  The department
    1-8  may transfer a correctional facility to another agency of the
    1-9  state, and the agency receiving the facilities subsequently may
   1-10  transfer the facility back to the department.
   1-11        (b)  A transfer under this section requires the agreement of
   1-12  the board and the governing body of the agency receiving the
   1-13  correctional facility or returning the correctional facility to the
   1-14  department, both as to the identity of the facility to be
   1-15  transferred and to the method of transfer.
   1-16        (c)  In this section, "transfer" means to convey title to,
   1-17  lease, or otherwise convey the beneficial use of a correctional
   1-18  facility and land appurtenant to the facility.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 551, Health and Safety
   1-20  Code, is amended by adding Section 551.008 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 551.008.  TRANSFER OF FACILITIES.  (a)  The department
   1-22  may transfer the South Campus of the Vernon State Hospital to the
   1-23  Texas Youth Commission contingent upon the agreement of the
   1-24  governing board of the department and the governing board of the
    2-1  Texas Youth Commission.
    2-2        (b)  In this section, "transfer" means to convey title to,
    2-3  lease, or otherwise convey the beneficial use of facilities,
    2-4  equipment, and land appurtenant to the facilities.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.