1-1     By:  Uher, Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Brown)          H.B. No. 1840
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to authorizing the board of regents of The University of
 1-9     Texas System to acquire certain properties for campus expansion and
1-10     other university purposes.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  The board of regents of The University of Texas
1-13     System is authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, or in
1-14     any other manner, for campus expansion or other university
1-15     purposes, any or all of the following real property located in
1-16     Harris County and not already acquired by the board of regents:
1-17     1.  All land in the P. W. Rose Survey, Abstract No. 645, Houston,
1-18     Harris County, Texas, that is bounded by Fannin, Cecil, and Lehall
1-19     Streets and Braeswood Boulevard, including, without limitation, all
1-20     lots within Blocks 1 and 2, University Park Addition, according to
1-21     the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 450, Page 564 of the
1-22     Deed Records of Harris County, Texas, and  all adjacent strips,
1-23     gores, streets, alleys, alleyways, thoroughfares, and real
1-24     property, whether or not vacated, specifically including, but not
1-25     limited to, Lyndon, Lehall, and Cecil Streets, SAVE AND EXCEPT all
1-26     such real property previously acquired by the Board of Regents and
1-27     SAVE AND EXCEPT Lots 1 through 6, inclusive, and Lots 27 and 28 in
1-28     Block 2, University Park Addition.
1-29     2.  All of Blocks 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22, Institute Addition,
1-30     according to the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 3, Page 5
1-31     of the Map Records of Harris County, Texas, and all adjacent
1-32     strips, gores, streets, alleys, alleyways, thoroughfares, and real
1-33     property, whether or not vacated, specifically including, but not
1-34     limited to, Cecil, Selma, St. Agnes, Eaton and Princeton Streets
1-35     and Braeswood Boulevard, SAVE AND EXCEPT all such real property
1-36     previously acquired by the Board of Regents.
1-37     3.  Approximately 1.0447 acres, or 45,505 square feet, more or
1-38     less, of land in the P. W.  Rose Survey, Abstract No. 645, Houston,
1-39     Harris County, Texas, said tract being more particularly described
1-40     by metes and bounds in the Warranty Deed dated effective June 26,
1-41     1987, recorded in the Real Property Records of Harris County,
1-42     Texas, under Clerk's File No. L195838, together with all adjacent
1-43     strips or gores of real estate.
1-44     4.  Approximately 39,540 square feet out of the P. W. Rose Survey,
1-45     Abstract No. 645, Houston, Harris County, Texas, said tract being
1-46     more particularly described by metes and bounds in the Special
1-47     Warranty Deed dated May 22, 1987, recorded in the Real Property
1-48     Records of Harris County, Texas, under Clerk's File No. L184468,
1-49     together with all adjacent strips or gores of real estate, and
1-50     together with any right, title and interest in the land lying
1-51     between the above described 39,540 square foot tract of land and
1-52     the center line of Wyndale Drive.
1-53     5.  All of the land that is bounded on the south by Braeswood
1-54     Boulevard, on the west by the property described in the deed to
1-55     Homegate Hospitality, Inc., recorded in S376020 of the Deed Records
1-56     of Harris County, Texas, and on the east by the property described
1-57     in the deed to the Board of Regents recorded in M54663 of the Deed
1-58     Records of Harris County, Texas, "including, without limitation," a
1-59     0.3940 acre (17,162 square feet) parcel, more or less, out of a
1-60     called 9.19 acre tract as conveyed in deed recorded under Harris
1-61     County Clerk's File No. P626553, said 0.3940 acre tract being out
1-62     of the P.W. Rose Survey, Abstract No. 645, in the City of Houston,
1-63     Harris County, Texas, and being more particularly described by
1-64     metes and bounds as follows with all bearings referenced to the
 2-1     recorded plat of M. Sanders as recorded in Volume 340 at Page 103
 2-2     of the Harris County Map Records;
 2-3           BEGINNING at a 5/8-inch iron rod set in the northerly
 2-4     right-of-way line of South Braeswood Boulevard (based on a width of
 2-5     120 feet) as described in instrument recorded in Volume 4414 at
 2-6     Page 107 of the Harris County Deed Records, same point being in the
 2-7     centerline of an abandoned 60-foot right-of-way formerly known as
 2-8     Cecil Street, the southwest corner of a tract of land conveyed to
 2-9     The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center by instrument
2-10     recorded under Harris County Clerk's File No. M546653 and the
2-11     southeast corner of the herein described tract;
2-12           THENCE, S78 35' 21" W, along said northerly right-of-way line
2-13     of South Braeswood Boulevard, a distance of 94.73 feet to a
2-14     5/8-inch iron rod set for the southwest corner of the herein
2-15     described tract;
2-16           THENCE, N 00 50' 34" W, along the westerly line of the herein
2-17     described tract, a distance of 189.90 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod
2-18     set for the northwest corner of the herein described tract in the
2-19     southerly line of a Harris County Flood Control District
2-20     right-of-way for Brays Bayou as described in instrument recorded in
2-21     Volume 3488 at Page 56 of the Harris County Deed Records;
2-22           THENCE, N 85 22' 57" E, along said southerly right-of-way
2-23     line of Brays Bayou, a distance of 93.33 feet to a 5/8-inch iron
2-24     rod set for the northeast corner of the herein described tract and
2-25     the northwest corner of said tract conveyed to The University of
2-26     Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in the centerline of said
2-27     abandoned 60-foot right-of-way formerly known as Cecil Street;
2-28           THENCE, S 00 50' 34" E, along the easterly line of the herein
2-29     described tract, the westerly line of said tract conveyed to The
2-30     University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the centerline
2-31     of said abandoned 60-foot right-of-way, a distance of 178.67 feet
2-32     to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 0.3940 of an acre of land.
2-33           SECTION 2.  If all or any portion of the property described
2-34     by this section that is currently owned by the United States is
2-35     made available by the United States by auction, by negotiated sale,
2-36     as surplus property, or in any other manner, the board of regents
2-37     of The University of Texas System is authorized to acquire that
2-38     property by purchase, exchange, gift, or in any other manner, for
2-39     campus expansion or other university purposes.  This section
2-40     applies to the following property:
2-41     All property located south of Old Spanish Trail, north of El Paseo
2-42     Street, west of Cambridge Street and east of Fannin Street in
2-43     Houston, Harris County, Texas, that is now owned by the United
2-44     States of America and that is more particularly described as:
2-45     A tract of land containing 790,951.44 square feet (18.1578 acres)
2-46     of land situated in Harris County, Texas.
2-47     Commencing at a Highway Department right of way monument at the
2-48     southeast corner of Knight Road and U.S. Highway 59 (Old Spanish
2-49     Trail).
2-50     THENCE WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HIGHWAY AND IN A COURSE NORTH
2-51     7436' EAST A DISTANCE OF 821.06 FEET TO A POINT OF BEGINNING;
2-52     THENCE NORTH 74 DEG. 28 MIN. 47 SEC. EAST A DISTANCE OF 592.49 FEET
2-53     TO A POINT FOR CORNER;
2-54     THENCE NORTH 74 DEG. 41 MIN. 57 SEC. EAST A DISTANCE OF 720.06 FEET
2-55     TO A 5/8 INCH IRON ROD FOUND FOR CORNER;
2-56     THENCE SOUTH 15 DEC. 16 MIN. 58 SEC. EAST A DISTANCE OF 603.88 FEET
2-57     TO A 1/2 INCH IRON ROD FOUND FOR CORNER;
2-58     THENCE SOUTH 74 DEG. 36 MIN. 13 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 719.87 FEET
2-59     TO A 5/8 INCH IRON ROD FOUND FOR CORNER;
2-60     THENCE NORTH 15 DEG. 46 MIN. 43 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 3.94 FEET
2-61     TO A 5/8 INCH IRON ROD FOUND FOR CORNER;
2-62     THENCE SOUTH 74 DEG. 44 MIN. 27 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 592.27 FEET
2-63     TO A 5/8 INCH IRON ROD SET FOR CORNER;
2-64     THENCE NORTH 24 DEG. 00 MIN. 00 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 600.00 FEET
2-65     TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING AND CONTAINING 790,951.44 SQUARE FEET
2-66     (18.1578 ACRES), MORE OR LESS, together with all adjacent strips or
2-67     gores of real estate.
2-68           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-69     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-5     passage, and it is so enacted.
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