By: Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 3169
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007;
  April 19, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
  and Human Services; May 2, 2007, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 2, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
  Health and Human Services Commission, on behalf of the Department
  of State Health Services or the Department of Aging and Disability
  Services, as appropriate, to Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental
  Retardation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.   (a) Not later than May 31, 2008, the Texas
  Health and Human Services Commission may transfer, on behalf of the
  Department of State Health Services or the Department of Aging and
  Disability Services, as appropriate, to Texas Panhandle Mental
  Health Mental Retardation all or part of the real property,
  including the improvements affixed to the property and excluding
  the mineral interest in and under the property, described by
  Subsection (f) of this section.
         (b)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection
  (a) of this section shall be in the form of an agreement between the
  parties that requires Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental
  Retardation to use the property in a manner that primarily promotes
  a public purpose of the state by using the property to provide
  community-based mental health and mental retardation services. If
  Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation fails to use the
  property in that manner for more than 180 continuous
  days,  ownership of the property automatically reverts to the
  Department of State Health Services or the Department of Aging and
  Disability Services, as appropriate.
         (c)  The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on
  behalf of the Department of State Health Services or the Department
  of Aging and Disability Services, as appropriate, shall transfer
  the property by deed without warranties regarding covenants of
  title. The instrument of transfer must include a provision that:
               (1)  requires Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental
  Retardation to use the property in a manner that primarily promotes
  a public purpose of the state by using the property to provide
  community-based mental health and mental retardation services; and
               (2)  indicates that ownership of the property
  automatically reverts to the Department of State Health Services or
  the Department of Aging and Disability Services, as appropriate, if
  Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation fails to use the
  property in that manner for more than 180 continuous days.
         (d)  The state reserves:
               (1)  its interest in all oil, gas, and other minerals in
  and under the real property described by Subsection (f) of this
  section;
               (2)  its right to remove from the real property
  described by Subsection (f) of this section any oil, gas, and other
  minerals in and under the real property; and
               (3)  its right to grant leases held by the state before
  a conveyance of real property described by Subsection (f) of this
  section relating to the removal of oil, gas, and other minerals in
  and under the real property.
         (e)  Sections 533.084 and 533.087, Health and Safety Code,
  and Sections 31.1571 and 31.158, Natural Resources Code, do not
  apply to a transfer of real property authorized by this Act.
         (f)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
  section refers is described as follows:
         The former site of the Amarillo State Center situated at 901
  Wallace Street, Amarillo, Texas, and comprised of three contiguous
  parcels, collectively constituting =/- 12.1665 acres of land as set
  forth below:
               (1)  A tract of land known as Tract 1 in Block 4 of the
  plat of Amarillo Medical Center, an addition to the City of
  Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, containing =/- 10.10 acres of land
  and further described in a deed to the state recorded at Volume
  1037, Page 569, of the Deed Records of Potter County.
               (2)  A tract of land being a portion of Lot 3, Block 4,
  Amarillo Medical Center, an addition to the City of Amarillo,
  Potter County, Texas, containing =/- 1.4441 acres of land and
  further described in a deed to the state recorded at Volume 2370,
  Page 55, of the Deed Records of Potter County.
               (3)  A tract of land out of Lot 3, Block 4 of Amarillo
  Medical Center, an addition to the City of Amarillo, Potter County,
  Texas, containing =/- 0.6224 acres of land and further described in
  a deed to the state recorded at Volume 2370, Page 59, of the Deed
  Records of Potter County.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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