By:  Ogden                                             S.B. No. 463
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
 1-2     Department of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than January 31, 2000, the Texas
 1-5     Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to Walker County the
 1-6     real property described by Subsection (e) of this section.
 1-7           (b)  Walker County may use the property transferred under
 1-8     this Act only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of
 1-9     the state.  If Walker County no longer uses the property for a
1-10     purpose that benefits the public interest of the state, Walker
1-11     County shall sell the property for fair market value under the
1-12     procedures provided by Section 272.001, Local Government Code, and
1-13     forward the proceeds of the sale to the Texas Department of
1-14     Criminal Justice.  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall
1-15     deposit proceeds received from the sale of the property as provided
1-16     by this subsection in the Texas capital trust fund.
1-17           (c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer
1-18     the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  The
1-19     instrument of transfer must include a provision that:
1-20                 (1)  requires Walker County to use the property only
1-21     for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
1-22                 (2)  requires Walker County to sell the property and
1-23     forward the proceeds of the sale to the Texas Department of
1-24     Criminal Justice as provided by Subsection (b) of this section if
 2-1     Walker County no longer uses the property for a purpose that
 2-2     benefits the public interest of the state.
 2-3           (d)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain
 2-4     custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
 2-5     transfer is filed in the real property records of Walker County.
 2-6           (e)  The real property referred to in this section is
 2-7     described as follows:
 2-8     The west 120 feet of Lot No. 25, Block 8, and south 18 feet of the
 2-9     west 120 feet of Lot No. 26, Block No. 8, City of Huntsville,
2-10     County of Walker, State of Texas, more particularly described as
2-11     follows:
2-12     BEGINNING AT THE northeast corner of the intersection of 11th
2-13     Street (formerly Cedar Street) and Avenue K (formerly Main Street);
2-14     THENCE in an eastwardly direction along the north line of 11th
2-15     Street and south line of Lot No. 25, a distance of 120 feet more or
2-16     less to a point;
2-17     THENCE in a northern direction and parallel to the east line of
2-18     Avenue K, a distance of 100 feet more or less to the south line of
2-19     Lot 26, Block 8;
2-20     THENCE continue north parallel to the east line of Avenue K, a
2-21     distance of 18 feet more or less to a point;
2-22     THENCE in a westerly direction and parallel to the north line of
2-23     11th Street, a distance of 120 feet more or less to a point on the
2-24     east line of Avenue K;
2-25     THENCE in a southern direction along the east line of Avenue K and
2-26     west line of Lot 26, Block 8, a distance of 18 feet more or less to
 3-1     a point or corner between Lot 25 and Lot 26, Block 8;
 3-2     THENCE continue in a southerly direction along the east line of
 3-3     Avenue K and west line of Lot 25, Block 8, a distance of 100 feet
 3-4     more or less to the POINT OF BEGINNING; containing in aggregate
 3-5     14,400 square feet more or less and further identified as 1036 11th
 3-6     Street, Huntsville, Texas.
 3-7     The above described property was conveyed to the United States of
 3-8     America by deeds recorded in Deed Book 33, page 535, July 24, 1911;
 3-9     Deed Book 33, page 536, July 24, 1911; Book 33, page 537, July 24,
3-10     1911; and Deed Book 33, page 538, July 25, 1911; and Deed Book 33,
3-11     page 539, July 25, 1911; and Deed of Correction-Book 34, pages 83
3-12     and 84, of the Records of the County of Walker, State of Texas.
3-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-19     passage, and it is so enacted.