By: Bonnen (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 2004
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 2011;
  April 28, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Government Organization; May 19, 2011, reported adversely, with
  favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2004 By:  Hegar
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the sale of certain state property in Brazoria County by
  the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than December 31, 2011, the Texas
  Board of Criminal Justice shall sell the real property described by
  Subsection (c) of this section if the board receives a bid of at
  least $5.5 million for the property.
         (b)  The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall sell the
  property as provided by Section 496.0021, Government Code. The
  General Land Office shall negotiate and close a transaction
  involving the real property described by this section on behalf of
  the board using the procedures under Section 31.158, Natural
  Resources Code.  The sale shall exclude the mineral interests in and
  under the property, and the deed shall contain a provision
  expressly reserving the state's interest in and right to remove all
  oil, gas, and other minerals in and under the real property
  described by Subsection (c) of this section.
         (c)  The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall sell the real
  property described as follows:
  Approximately 2,200 acres, more or less, being part of that 2682
  acre tract or parcel of land conveyed to the Prison Commission of
  the State of Texas as recorded in Book 145, Page 307 of the Deed
  Records Brazoria County, Texas, said 2,200 acres, more or less,
  being out of the Stephen Richardson League, Abstract 122 and the
  William Harris League, Abstract 71 in Brazoria County, Texas near
  Angleton, Texas, bounded by the Brazos River to the West, the
  southern boundary being the northern boundary of a tract of parcel
  of land conveyed to The Dow Chemical Company as recorded as Volume
  453, Page 607 of the Deed Records of Brazoria County, Texas and
  bounded on the north and east by the remainder of the called 2682
  acre tract or parcel of land.
         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.
 
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