SLC S.B. 1125 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


LAND & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
S.B. 1125
By: Madla (Puente)
4-28-97
Committee Report (Unamended)


BACKGROUND 

Currently, the land of the San Antonio State Hospital contains the
headgate to the San Juan Acequia and the only existing remains of the
historic San Juan Dam.  This bill would allow the General Land Office to
donate San Antonio State Hospital land to the National Park Service and
thereby help to preserve a historical resource.   

PURPOSE

SB 1125 authorizes the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation to convey certain land of the San Antonio State Hospital lands
to the federal government for administration by the National Park Service
as a national park. 

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.  

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Authorizes the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
Retardation to convey, on behalf of the state, all of the interest of the
state in the real property described by Section 2 of this Act to the
federal government for administration by the National Park Service as a
national park.  Provides that Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural
Resources Code, do not apply to the conveyance authorized by this section. 

SECTION 2. Provides that real property authorized for conveyance by
Section 1 of this Act is a portion of the Texas Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation's San Antonio State Hospital being 29.315
acres of land in two tracts, one of 28.478 acres and one of 0.837 of one
acre, and being all of that part of the San Antonio State Hospital lands
currently lying west or southwest of the combined rights of way of South
Presa Road and the Southern Pacific Railroad and situated within the
Anselmo Galvan Survey No. 25, Abstract No. 259, and further being a part
of the lands described in a deed to the State of Texas recorded in volume
63, page 317, of the Deed Records of Bexar County, Texas. 

SECTION 3. Emergency Clause. Effective Date.