By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1002
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
 1-3     Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to the Border
 1-4     Region MHMR Community Center.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  (a)  The Texas Department of Mental Health and
 1-7     Mental Retardation may transfer to the Border Region MHMR Community
 1-8     Center all or part of the real property, including the improvements
 1-9     affixed to the property and excluding the mineral interest in and
1-10     under the property, described by Subsection (f) of this section.
1-11           (b)  The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-12     Retardation may transfer the property described by Subsection (f)
1-13     of this section on the earlier of the date:
1-14                 (1)  the conditions subsequent imposed by the deeds to
1-15     the state recorded at Volume 659, Pages 52-53, and Volume 674,
1-16     Pages 326-327, in the real property records of Webb County, expire;
1-17     or
1-18                 (2)  the federal government agrees to terminate the
1-19     conditions subsequent imposed by the deeds to the state recorded at
1-20     Volume 659, Pages 52-53, and Volume 674, Pages 326-327, in the real
1-21     property records of Webb County.
1-22           (c)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection
1-23     (a) of this section shall be in the form of an agreement between
1-24     the parties that requires the Border Region MHMR Community Center
1-25     to use the property in a manner that primarily promotes a public
 2-1     purpose of the state by using the property to provide
 2-2     community-based mental health and mental retardation services.  If
 2-3     the Border Region MHMR Community Center fails to use the property
 2-4     in that manner for more than 180 continuous days,  ownership of the
 2-5     property automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Mental
 2-6     Health and Mental Retardation.
 2-7           (d)  The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
 2-8     Retardation shall transfer the property by deed without warranties
 2-9     regarding covenants of title. The instrument of transfer must
2-10     include a provision that:
2-11                 (1)  requires the Border Region MHMR Community Center
2-12     to use the property in a manner that primarily promotes a public
2-13     purpose of the state by using the property to provide
2-14     community-based mental health and mental retardation services; and
2-15                 (2)  indicates that ownership of the property
2-16     automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Mental Health and
2-17     Mental Retardation if the Border Region MHMR Community Center fails
2-18     to use the property in the manner described by Subdivision (1) of
2-19     this subsection for more than 180 continuous days.
2-20           (e)  Sections 533.084 and 533.087, Health and Safety Code,
2-21     and Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural Resources Code, do not
2-22     apply to a transfer of real property authorized by this Act.
2-23           (f)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
2-24     section refers consists of the former site of the Laredo State
2-25     Center situated at 1500 Pappas St., Laredo, Texas, and is comprised
2-26     of two contiguous parcels, collectively constituting +/- 14.234
 3-1     acres of land described as follows:
 3-2                 (1)  A +/- 9.234 acre tract of land located in Survey
 3-3                 1020, and partly in the original City of Laredo Tract,
 3-4                 both within the Laredo Air Force Base enclosure,
 3-5                 Laredo, Webb County, and further described in a deed to
 3-6                 the state recorded at Volume 659 Page 50-1 of the Deed
 3-7                 Records of Webb County.
 3-8                 (2)  A +/- 5.00 acre tract of land out of that tract of
 3-9                 316.47 acres as conveyed by the United States of
3-10                 America, acting by and through the General Services
3-11                 Administration, to the City of Laredo, and further
3-12                 described in a deed to the state recorded at Volume
3-13                 674, Page 325, of the Deed Records of Webb County.
3-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
3-15     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
3-16     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
3-17     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
3-18     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.