1-1     By:  Moncrief, Duncan                                  S.B. No. 396
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 12, 1999, 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     Howard and Tarrant counties.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 533.084, Health and
1-12     Safety Code, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-13     Retardation may convey, on behalf of the state, all or any portion
1-14     of the interest of the state in the real property, including the
1-15     land and all improvements affixed to the land, described by Section
1-16     2 of this Act to the West Texas Centers for Mental Health and
1-17     Mental Retardation for use as a facility to provide community-based
1-18     mental health and mental retardation services.  The reservations
1-19     contained in the deed to the State of Texas recorded at volume 642,
1-20     page 480, of the Deed Records of Howard County shall run with the
1-21     land and continue to be binding on the community mental health and
1-22     mental retardation center.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The real property authorized for conveyance by
1-24     Section 1 of this Act consists of an administrative office building
1-25     and adjacent parking lot being known as Lots 5, 6, and 7, Block 19,
1-26     Original Town Site, Big Spring, Howard County, Texas and being a
1-27     +/- 0.48 acre tract further described in a deed to the State of
1-28     Texas recorded at volume 642, page 480 of the Deed Records Tarrant
1-29     County.
1-30           SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 533.084, Health and
1-31     Safety Code, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-32     Retardation may convey, on behalf of the state, all or any portion
1-33     of the interest of the state in the real property, including the
1-34     land and all improvements affixed to the land, described by Section
1-35     4 of this Act to Tarrant County Mental Health and Mental
1-36     Retardation Services for use as a facility to provide
1-37     community-based mental health and mental retardation services.  The
1-38     conditions precedent and possibility of revertor established in the
1-39     deed to the State of Texas recorded at volume 8528, page 2057, of
1-40     the Deed Records Tarrant County shall run with the land and
1-41     continue to be binding on the community mental health and mental
1-42     retardation center.
1-43           SECTION 4.  The real property authorized for conveyance by
1-44     Section 3 of this Act consists of the former site of the Tarrant
1-45     County Psychiatric Hospital being situated at 1527 Hemphill Street
1-46     in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas and being a +/- 3.98 acre
1-47     tract further described in a deed to the State of Texas recorded at
1-48     volume 8528, page 2057 of the Deed Records Tarrant County.
1-49           SECTION 5.  There is hereby reserved and excepted unto the
1-50     State of Texas and not conveyed to the community mental health and
1-51     mental retardation centers all oil, gas, and other minerals in and
1-52     under the land conveyed as authorized by this Act and the right and
1-53     power to remove any and all of said minerals, including the right
1-54     and power to grant oil, gas, and mineral leases, as such rights and
1-55     powers are held by the state prior to conveyance.
1-56           SECTION 6.  Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural Resources
1-57     Code, and Sections 533.084 and 533.087, Health and Safety Code, do
1-58     not apply to the conveyances authorized by this Act.
1-59           SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-60     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-61     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-62     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-63     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-64     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.
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