82R6592 NC-D
 
  By: Schwertner H.B. No. 1235
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
  Department of Transportation to the Parks and Wildlife Department.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than December 31, 2011, the Texas
  Department of Transportation shall transfer to the Parks and
  Wildlife Department the real property described by Subsection (d)
  of this section.
         (b)  The consideration for the transfer authorized by
  Subsection (a) of this section is the requirement that the Parks and
  Wildlife Department use the property transferred only for a public
  park, a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state. If
  the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a
  public park, ownership of the property automatically reverts to the
  Texas Department of Transportation.
         (c)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer
  the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer, executed on
  its behalf by the commissioner of the General Land Office. The
  instrument of transfer must:
               (1)  include a provision that:
                     (A)  requires the Parks and Wildlife Department to
  use the property for a public park, a purpose that benefits the
  public interest of the state;
                     (B)  allows the Parks and Wildlife Department to
  lease the property described by Subsection (d) to the Williamson
  County Parks and Recreation Department for use as a public park; and
                     (C)  indicates that ownership of the property
  automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Transportation if
  the Parks and Wildlife Department no longer uses the property for a
  public park; and
               (2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this
  section refers is described as follows:
  A tract of land situated in the Damon Survey, Abstract No. 170, in
  Williamson County, Texas, being all of that called 6.180 acre tract
  of land (Tract 7), as shown on that unrecorded plat prepared by KC
  Engineering dated July 18, 1994, on ten (10) tracts of land out of
  that called 780.508 acre tract of land conveyed to the State of
  Texas, State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, by
  instrument recorded in Volume 1723, Page 855, of the Official
  Records of Williamson County, Texas.
         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, 2011.