1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1125

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 13, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 2, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 12,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 2, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in

 1-9     Bexar County to the National Park Service.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  The Texas Department of Mental Health and

1-12     Mental Retardation may convey, on behalf of the state, all of the

1-13     interest of the state in the real property described by Section 2

1-14     of this Act to the federal government for administration by the

1-15     National Park Service as a national park.

1-16           (b)  Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural Resources Code, do

1-17     not apply to the conveyance authorized by this section.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The real property authorized for conveyance by

1-19     Section 1 of this Act is a portion of the Texas Department of

1-20     Mental Health and Mental Retardation's San Antonio State Hospital

1-21     being 29.315 acres of land in two tracts, one of 28.478 acres and

1-22     one of 0.837 of one acre, and being all of that part of the San

1-23     Antonio State Hospital lands currently lying west or southwest of

1-24     the combined rights of way of South Presa Road and the Southern

1-25     Pacific Railroad and situated within the Anselmo Galvan Survey No.

1-26     25, Abstract No. 259, and further being a part of the lands

1-27     described in a deed to the State of Texas recorded in volume 63,

1-28     page 317, of the Deed Records of Bexar County, Texas.

1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-34     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-35     passage, and it is so enacted.

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