By: Moncrief, Duncan S.B. No. 396
99S0036/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
1-2 Howard and Tarrant counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Notwithstanding Section 533.084, Health and
1-5 Safety Code, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-6 Retardation may convey, on behalf of the state, all or any portion
1-7 of the interest of the state in the real property, including the
1-8 land and all improvements affixed to the land, described by Section
1-9 2 of this Act to the West Texas Centers for Mental Health and
1-10 Mental Retardation for use as a facility to provide community-based
1-11 mental health and mental retardation services. The reservations
1-12 contained in the deed to the State of Texas recorded at volume 642,
1-13 page 480, of the Deed Records of Howard County shall run with the
1-14 land and continue to be binding on the community mental health and
1-15 mental retardation center.
1-16 SECTION 2. The real property authorized for conveyance by
1-17 Section 1 of this Act consists of an administrative office building
1-18 and adjacent parking lot being known as Lots 5, 6, and 7, Block 19,
1-19 Original Town Site, Big Spring, Howard County, Texas and being a
1-20 +/- 0.48 acre tract further described in a deed to the State of
1-21 Texas recorded at volume 642, page 480 of the Deed Records Tarrant
1-22 County.
1-23 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 533.084, Health and
1-24 Safety Code, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
2-1 Retardation may convey, on behalf of the state, all or any portion
2-2 of the interest of the state in the real property, including the
2-3 land and all improvements affixed to the land, described by Section
2-4 4 of this Act to Tarrant County Mental Health and Mental
2-5 Retardation Services for use as a facility to provide
2-6 community-based mental health and mental retardation services. The
2-7 conditions precedent and possibility of revertor established in the
2-8 deed to the State of Texas recorded at volume 8528, page 2057, of
2-9 the Deed Records Tarrant County shall run with the land and
2-10 continue to be binding on the community mental health and mental
2-11 retardation center.
2-12 SECTION 4. The real property authorized for conveyance by
2-13 Section 3 of this Act consists of the former site of the Tarrant
2-14 County Psychiatric Hospital being situated at 1527 Hemphill Street
2-15 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas and being a +/- 3.98 acre
2-16 tract further described in a deed to the State of Texas recorded at
2-17 volume 8528, page 2057 of the Deed Records Tarrant County.
2-18 SECTION 5. There is hereby reserved and excepted unto the
2-19 State of Texas and not conveyed to the community mental health and
2-20 mental retardation centers all oil, gas, and other minerals in and
2-21 under the land conveyed as authorized by this Act and the right and
2-22 power to remove any and all of said minerals, including the right
2-23 and power to grant oil, gas, and mineral leases, as such rights and
2-24 powers are held by the state prior to conveyance.
2-25 SECTION 6. Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural Resources
2-26 Code, and Sections 533.084 and 533.087, Health and Safety Code, do
3-1 not apply to the conveyances authorized by this Act.
3-2 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.