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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1002 passed the Senate on
April 27, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 0, one
present, not voting.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1002 passed the House on
May 17, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, two
present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor