H.B. No. 2343




AN ACT

relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than January 31, 2004, the Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice may donate and transfer to Walker 
County the real property described by Subsection (e) of this 
section.
	(b)  Walker County shall use the property transferred under 
this Act only for the construction and operation of a museum that 
memorializes veterans.  If Walker County uses the property for any 
purpose other than the construction and operation of a museum that 
memorializes veterans, ownership of the property automatically 
reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
	(c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice may transfer 
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  The 
instrument of transfer must:
		(1)  provide that:                                                            
			(A)  Walker County shall use the property only for 
the construction and operation of a museum that memorializes 
veterans; and
			(B)  ownership of the property will automatically 
revert to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if Walker County 
uses the property for any purpose other than the purpose specified 
in Subsection (b); and
		(2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes 
and bounds.           
	(d)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall retain 
custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of 
transfer is filed in the real property records of Walker County.
	(e)  The real property referred to in this section is 
described as follows:  
	Being 5.00 acres of land, situated in the PLEASANT GRAY 
LEAGUE, Abstract No. 24, Walker County, Texas, and being out of and 
a part of the residue of called 1401 acre and 515 acre tracts 
described in a Deed from Ed H. Cunningham and L.A. Ellis to the 
Governor of the State of Texas dated July 10, 1883 and recorded in 
Volume Y, page 181, Deed Records of Walker County, Texas, said 5.00 
acres being more definitely described by metes and bounds as 
follows:
	BEGINNING at the northeast corner of a called 10.01 acre 
tract described in a Deed from the State of Texas to Walker County 
dated February 3, 2000 and recorded in Volume 417, page 218, 
Official Public Records, a point for corner in the south 
right-of-way line of State Highway No. 75;
	THENCE S 83°09'E, with the south right-of-way line of State 
Highway No. 75, a distance of 500 feet to a point;
	THENCE S 06°51'W, a distance of 375.5 feet to a point;                     
	THENCE N 83°09'W, a distance of 659.8 feet to a point in the 
east line of said Walker County 10.01 acre tract;
	THENCE N 29°54'E, with the east line of said Walker County 
10.01 acre tract, a distance of 408.2 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING 
and containing 5.00 acres of land.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2343 was passed by the House on May 5, 
2003, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate 
amendments to H.B. No. 2343 on May 30, 2003, by a non-record vote; 
and that the House adopted H.C.R. No. 289 authorizing certain 
corrections in H.B. No. 2343 on June 2, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 2343 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0; and that the Senate adopted H.C.R. No. 289 authorizing certain 
corrections in H.B. No. 2343 on June 2, 2003, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor