By Howard                                       H.B. No. 1961

      75R6751 PAM-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas

 1-3     Department of Transportation to certain governmental entities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than October 31, 1997, the Texas

 1-6     Department of Transportation shall transfer to the Board of Regents

 1-7     of the University of Houston System the real property described by

 1-8     Subsection (c) of this section.

 1-9           (b)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer

1-10     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.

1-11           (c)  The real property referred to in Subsection (a) of this

1-12     section is described as follows:

1-13                 (1)  A 109 acre tract of contiguous land, more or less,

1-14     south of U.S.  Highway 59, north of the Brazos River and west of

1-15     the planned Highway 6       By-Pass, all part of what is commonly

1-16     referred to as TXDOT Tract No. 5, as shown on Page 45 of the

1-17     Executive Summary of the Engineering Report/Feasibility Study for

1-18     the Potential Development of Approximately 6000 Acres of Prison

1-19     System Land dated March, 1996, prepared for the Texas Department of

1-20     Transportation - Houston District by Rust Lichliter/Jameson.

1-21                 (2)  A 68 acre tract of contiguous land, more or less,

1-22     south of U.S.  Highway 59, north of the Brazos River and west of

1-23     the planned Highway 6       By-Pass, all part of what is commonly

1-24     referred to as TXDOT Tract No. 5, as shown on Page 45 of the

 2-1     Executive Summary of the Engineering Report/Feasibility Study for

 2-2     the Potential Development of Approximately 6000 Acres of Prison

 2-3     System Land dated March, 1996, prepared for the Texas Department of

 2-4     Transportation - Houston District by Rust Lichliter/Jameson.

 2-5                 (3)  A 71 acre tract of contiguous land, more or less,

 2-6     south of U.S.  Highway 59, north of the Brazos River and west of

 2-7     the planned Highway 6       By-Pass, all part of what is commonly

 2-8     referred to as TXDOT Tract No. 5, as shown on Page 45 of the

 2-9     Executive Summary of the Engineering Report/Feasibility Study for

2-10     the Potential Development of Approximately 6000 Acres of Prison

2-11     System Land dated March, 1996, prepared for the Texas Department of

2-12     Transportation - Houston District by Rust Lichliter/Jameson.

2-13                 (4)  A 0.182 acre tract, more or less, situated in the

2-14     Luke Moore League, Abstract No. 51, Harris County, Texas, being a

2-15     portion of a called 3.797 acre tract conveyed to the State of

2-16     Texas, recorded under File Number P329378, Film Code Number

2-17     164-54-2898 of the Harris County Official Public Records of Real

2-18     Property also know as and referred to as the remainder of the

2-19     Pechinpaugh Tract, TXDOT Parcel No. 263.

2-20           SECTION 2.  (a) Not later than October 31, 1997, the Texas

2-21     Department of Transportation shall transfer to the City of Sugar

2-22     Land for consideration mutually agreed to by the parties the real

2-23     property described by Subsection (d) of this section.

2-24           (b)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer

2-25     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.

2-26           (c)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection

2-27     (a) of this section may be in the form of an agreement between the

 3-1     parties that requires the City of Sugar Land to use the property

 3-2     only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.

 3-3     If the consideration for the transfer is in the form of an

 3-4     agreement between the parties limiting the use of the real

 3-5     property, the instrument of transfer must include a provision that:

 3-6                 (1)  requires the City of Sugar Land to use the

 3-7     property only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of

 3-8     the state; and

 3-9                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property will

3-10     automatically revert to the Texas Department of Transportation if

3-11     the City of Sugar Land uses the property for any purpose other than

3-12     a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.

3-13           (d)  The property referred to in Subsection (a) of this

3-14     section is described as follows:

3-15                 (1)  A 150 acre tract of contiguous land, more or less,

3-16     south of U.S.  Highway 59, immediately north of the Brazos River

3-17     and west of the planned Highway 6 By-Pass, all part of what is

3-18     commonly referred to as TXDOT Tract No.  5, as shown on Page 45 of

3-19     the Executive Summary of the Engineering Report/Feasibility Study

3-20     for the Potential Development of Approximately 6000 Acres of Prison

3-21     System Land dated March, 1996, prepared for the Texas Department of

3-22     Transportation - Houston District by Rust Lichliter/Jameson.

3-23                 (2)  A 271 acre tract of contiguous land, more or less,

3-24     south of U.S.  Highway 59, immediately north of the Brazos River

3-25     and southwest of the planned Highway 6 By-Pass, all part of what is

3-26     commonly referred to as TXDOT Tract No.  5, as shown on Page 45 of

3-27     the Executive Summary of the Engineering Report/Feasibility Study

 4-1     for the Potential Development of Approximately 6000 Acres of Prison

 4-2     System Land dated March, 1996, prepared for the Texas Department of

 4-3     Transportation - Houston District by Rust Lichliter/Jameson.

 4-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 4-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 4-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 4-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 4-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 4-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

4-10     passage, and it is so enacted.