Amend CSHB 2914 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
SECTION 1. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
section, the state shall grant and relinquish the state's right,
title, and interest in and to the real property described by
Subsection (e) of this section to the City of Port Arthur if the
City of Port Arthur pays the sum of $25,000 to the General Land
Office for the benefit of the permanent school fund. The
commissioner of the General Land Office, on behalf of the state,
shall convey the real property by issuing a patent to the City of
Port Arthur.
(b) The commissioner of the General Land Office shall
reserve:
(1) ownership of all oil, gas, and other minerals in,
on, or beneath the real property and the right to lease, explore,
and develop the real property on behalf of the permanent school
fund; and
(2) to the extent located on the real property, the
easement and right-of-way described by Section 5(a), Chapter 219,
Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955.
(c) After the real property is conveyed to the City of Port
Arthur as authorized by this section:
(1) the City of Port Arthur may hold the real property
in the city's proprietary capacity;
(2) except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
section, the real property is not subject to a public use
restriction or any other restriction on the use or disposition of
the real property; and
(3) the City of Port Arthur may use, develop, lease,
sell, option, or convey all or part of the property for public or
private purposes.
(d) All previous grants, leases, easements, or other
conveyances of the real property by the City of Port Arthur or the
Pleasure Island Commission are confirmed. This Act does not affect
the rights or title of any private person or governmental entity to
any part of the real property. The patent issued by the
commissioner of the General Land Office as authorized by this
section enures to the benefit of the legal owners of the real
property.
(e) The real property referred to in this section consists
of tracts of land out of Sabine Lake, Jefferson County, Texas,
described by metes and bounds in patents of record in the General
Land Office, as follows:
(1) 1524.77 acres of land contained in three tracts,
as described in Patent Number 212, Volume 64A, file
Jefferson-Scrip-594, authorized by Chapter 181, Special Laws, Acts
of the 42nd Legislature, 1931, as amended by Chapter 170, Acts of
the 61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969;
(2) 14.7 acres of land, as described in Patent Number
409, Volume 53A, file Jefferson-Scrip-596, authorized by Chapter
22, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1933;
(3) 1877.94 acres of land, as described in Patent
Number 80, Volume 26B, file Jefferson-Scrip-598, authorized by
Chapter 219, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955;
and
(4) 5920.82 acres of land contained in three tracts,
as described in Patent Number 338, Volume 35B, file 153420,
authorized by Chapter 206, Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1967.
SECTION 2. (a) The state revokes and cancels all grants
made to the City of Port Arthur in and to the real property
described by Subsection (c) of this section that were executed
before the effective date of this Act.
(b) On the date the state executes the instrument revoking
and canceling all grants made to the City of Port Arthur as
provided by Subsection (a) of this section, the real property
becomes property of the permanent school fund.
(c) The real property referred to in this section consists
of all real property commonly known as Pleasure Island, which is
located in Jefferson County, Texas, that was conveyed to the City
of Port Arthur by legislative act of this state before the
effective date of this Act, excluding the real property described
by Section 1(e) of this Act.
SECTION 3. After the commissioner of the General Land Office
issues the patent as authorized by Section 1 of this Act, the
commissioner shall cancel the following patents:
(1) Patent Number 212, Volume 64A, file
Jefferson-Script-594, issued January 12, 1937;
(2) Patent Number 409, Volume 53A, file
Jefferson-Scrip-596, issued January 26, 1934;
(3) Patent Number 80, Volume 26B, file
Jefferson-Scrip-598, issued March 5, 1956; and
(4) Patent Number 338, Volume 35B, file 153420, issued
June 6, 1967.
SECTION 4. The following laws are repealed on the date the
commissioner of the General Land Office issues the patent as
authorized by Section 1 of this Act:
(1) Chapter 181, Special Laws, Acts of the 42nd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1931;
(2) Chapter 22, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, 1st
Called Session, 1933;
(3) Chapter 219, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1955;
(4) Chapter 206, Acts of the 60th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1967;
(5) Chapter 826, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 1993; and
(6) any law enacted before the effective date of this
Act that is in conflict with this Act, to the extent of the
conflict.
SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.