LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                          Austin, Texas

                           FISCAL NOTE
                       74th Regular Session

                          April 9, 1995



 TO:     Honorable Robert M. Saunders, Chair    IN RE:  House Bill No. 2461
         Committee on Land and Resource                 By: Counts
         Management
         House of Representatives
         Austin, Texas






FROM: John Keel, Director

In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on House Bill No.
2461 (Relating to the release of the state's reversionary
interest in certain real property located in Howard County.) this
office has determined the following:

The bill would make no appropriation but could provide the legal
basis for an appropriation of funds to implement the provisions
of the bill.

This bill would release all the State's surface interest in a
portion of land that, until 1976, was a part of Big Spring State
Hospital.  The 70.67 acre tract was deeded to the City of Big
Spring in 1976 following the passage of SB 238, 64th Legislature,
with restrictions on its use over and above  those of
compatibility.   This bill provides that the General Land Office,
on behalf of the state, will release the restrictions on the land
and that the City of Big Spring will pay to the state the added
value of the land without the restrictions.   The City and TDMHMR
will write a memorandum of understanding regarding the
compatibility of the use of the land.


No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The fiscal implication to  units of local government cannot be
determined.


Source:   Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental    




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