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.