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. 2-2 * * * * *