By: Miller of Fort Bend H.B. No. 1982
        (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
  May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation; May 22, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
  May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1982 By:  Kolkhorst
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
  Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a)  Not later than December 31, 2015, the Texas
  Department of Transportation shall donate and transfer to the
  University of Houston the real property described by Subsection (e)
  of this section.
         (b)  The University of Houston may use the property
  transferred under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the
  public interest of the state. If the University of Houston uses the
  property for any purpose other than a purpose described by this
  subsection, 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. The
  instrument of transfer must:
               (1)  provide that:
                     (A)  the University of Houston may use the
  property only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the
  state; and
                     (B)  ownership of the property will automatically
  revert to the Texas Department of Transportation if the University
  of Houston uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose
  described by Paragraph (A) of this subdivision; and
               (2)  describe the property to be transferred by metes
  and bounds.
         (d)  The Texas Department of Transportation shall retain
  custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of
  transfer is filed in the real property records of Fort Bend County.
         (e)  The real property referred to in this section consists
  of the following three tracts of land:
               (1)  Being a tract of land containing 5.000 acres
  (217,800 square feet), located in the Alexander Hodges Survey,
  Abstract-32, in Fort Bend County, Texas; being a portion of a called
  1093.65 acre tract recorded in the name of the State of Texas, State
  Department of Highways and Public Transportation in Volume 2329,
  Page 50 of the Fort Bend County Deed Records, and being all of a call
  5.000 acre tract recorded as Tract 5 Part 3 of the State of Texas
  Department of Transportation Tract 5 Partition Plat, a plat of
  record in Slide Numbers 1655B and 1656A of the Plat Records of Fort
  Bend County; said 5.000 acre tract being more particularly
  described by metes and bounds as follows (all bearings referenced
  to said Tract 5 partition plat):
         Beginning at a TxDOT disk found at the northwest corner of a
  said 5.000 acre tract, and being on the southeasterly Right-Of-Way
  (R.O.W.) line of U.S. Highway 59 (width varies), from which a TxDOT
  disk found for an angle point in said southeasterly R.O.W. line
  bears South 52 degrees 29 minutes 36 seconds West, a distance of
  453.80 feet;
         Thence, with the lines common to said 5.000 acre tract and the
  southeasterly R.O.W. line of said U.S. Highway 59, the following
  two (2) courses:
         1.  North 52 degrees 29 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance
  of 400.00 feet to a TxDOT disk found for an angle point;
         2.  North 76 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds East, a distance
  of 339.25 feet to a TxDOT disk found at the northeast corner of said
  5.000 acres and the northwest corner of a call 8.000 acre tract
  recorded as Tract 5, Part 4 of said Tract 5 partition plat, for the
  northeast corner of the herein described tract;
         Thence, with the line common to said 5.000 acre and said 8.000
  acre tracts, South 04 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance
  of 436.38 feet to a TxDOT disk found at the southeast corner of said
  5.000 acre tract and being a northeasterly corner of The Board of
  Regents of the University of Houston System Tract 5, Part 2 (U of H)
  recorded in Fort Bend County Clerk's File Number 98103479, for the
  southeast corner of the herein described tract;
         Thence, with the lines common to said U of H tract and said
  5.000 acre tract, the following two (2) courses:
         1.  South 85 degrees 50 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance
  of 563.90 feet to a TxDOT disk found at the southwest corner of said
  5.000 acre and the herein described tract;
         2.  North 37 degrees 31 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance
  of 190.28 feet to the Point of Beginning and containing 5.000 acres
  (217,800 square feet) of land;
               (2)  Being a tract of land containing 3.194 acres
  (139,131 square feet), located in the Alexander Hodges Survey,
  Abstract-32, in Fort Bend County, Texas; being a portion of a call
  105.505 acre tract of land Parcel Number 121 dedicated as the
  Right-Of-Way of U.S. Highway 59 (width varies) recorded in Volume
  460, Page 73 of the Fort Bend County Deed Records; said 3.194 acre
  tract being more particularly described by metes and bounds as
  follows (all bearings referenced to the State of Texas Department
  of Transportation Tract 5 Partition Plat, a plat of record in Slide
  Numbers 1655B and 1656A of the Plat Records of Fort Bend County,
  Texas):
         Commencing at a TxDOT disk found at the westerly northwest
  corner of a call 5.000 acre tract recorded as Tract 5, Part 3 of said
  Tract 5 partition plat, and being on the southeasterly R.O.W. line
  of said U.S. Highway 59, from which a TxDOT disk found for an angle
  point in said southeasterly R.O.W. line bears South 52 degrees 29
  minutes 36 seconds West, a distance of 453.80 feet;
         Thence, with the lines common to said 5.000 acre tract and the
  southeasterly R.O.W. line of U.S. Highway 59, North 52 degrees 29
  minutes 44 seconds East, a distance of 400.00 feet to a TxDOT disk
  found for the southwest corner and Point of Beginning of the herein
  described tract;
         Thence, through and across said 105.505 acre tract and with
  the proposed south R.O.W. line of said U.S. Highway 59, and the
  proposed west R.O.W. line of University Boulevard, the following
  five (5) courses:
         1.  North 52 degrees 29 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance
  of 409.89 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a Miller Survey Group
  (MSG) cap set for an angle point;
         2.  North 56 degrees 50 minutes 07 seconds East, a distance
  of 97.35 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a MSG cap set for an angle
  point;
         3.  North 52 degrees 29 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance
  of 274.54 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a MSG cap set for an angle
  point;
         4.  South 72 degrees 43 minutes 47 seconds East, a distance
  of 83.12 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a MSG cap set at the
  northeast corner of the herein described tract and being at the
  intersection of the proposed southeast R.O.W. line of proposed U.S.
  Highway 59 and the projection of the west R.O.W. line of University
  Boulevard;
         5.  South 04 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance
  of 362.11 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a MSG cap set at the
  northeast corner of a call 8.000 acre tract recorded as Tract 5,
  Part 4 of said Tract 5 partition plat, and being on the present
  southeast R.O.W. line of said U.S. Highway 59, for the southeast
  corner of the herein described tract;
         Thence, with the southeast R.O.W. line of U.S. Highway 59 and
  the north lines of said 8.000 acre and 5.000 acre tracts, the
  following three (3) courses:
         1.  North 49 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance
  of 35.51 feet to a 5/8 inch iron Rod with a MSG cap set for an angle
  point;
         2.  South 86 degrees 05 minutes 07 seconds West, a distance
  of 374.89 feet to a TxDOT disk found for the northwest corner of
  said 8.000 acre tract and the northeast corner of said 5.000 acre
  tract;
         3.  South 76 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds West, a distance
  of 339.25 feet to the Point of Beginning and containing 3.194 acres
  (139,131 square feet) of land; and
               (3)  Being a tract of land containing 8.000 acres
  (348,480 square feet), located in the Alexander Hodges Survey,
  Abstract-32, in Fort Bend County, Texas; being all of a call 8.000
  acre tract recorded in the name of the State of Texas, State
  Department of Highways and Public Transportation in Volume 1821,
  Page 993 of the Fort Bend County Deed Records, and platted as Tract
  5 Part 4 of the State of Texas Department of Transportation Tract 5
  Partition Plat, a plat of record in Slide Numbers 1655B and 1656A of
  the Plat Records of Fort Bend County; said 8.000 acre tract being
  more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows (all
  bearings referenced to said Tract 5 partition plat):
         Commencing at a TxDOT disk found at the northwest corner of a
  call 5.000 acre tract recorded as Tract 5, Part 3 of said Tract 5
  partition plat, and being on the southeasterly Right-Of-Way
  (R.O.W.) line of U.S. Highway 59 (width varies), from which a TxDOT
  disk found for an angle point in said southeasterly R.O.W. line
  bears South 52 degrees 29 minutes 36 seconds West, a distance of
  453.80 feet;
         Thence, with the lines common to said 5.000 acre tract and the
  southeasterly R.O.W. line of said U.S. Highway 59, the following
  four (4) courses:
         1.  North 52 degrees 29 minutes 44 seconds East, a distance
  of 400.00 feet to a TxDOT disk found for an angle point;
         2.  North 76 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds East, a distance
  of 339.25 feet to a TxDOT disk found at the northeast corner of said
  5.000 acre tract and the northwest corner of said 8.000 acre tract
  and Point of Beginning of the herein described tract;
         3.  North 86 degrees 05 minutes 07 seconds East ,a distance
  of 374.89 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a "Miller Survey Group"
  (MSG) cap set for an angle point;
         4.  South 49 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance
  of 35.51 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod with a MSG cap set on the west
  R.O.W. line of University Boulevard (width varies per said Tract 5
  partition plat), for the northeast corner of said 8.000 acre and the
  herein described tract;
         Thence, with the west R.O.W. line of said University
  Boulevard, and the east line of said 8.000 acre tract, South 04
  degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of 846.11 feet to an
  "X" cut in concrete set at the southeast corner of said 8.000 acre
  tract and being an easterly northeast corner of The Board of Regents
  of the University of Houston System Tract 5, Part 2 (U of H)
  recorded in Fort Bend County Clerk's File Number 98103479, for the
  southeast corner of the herein described tract;
         Thence, with the lines common to said U of H tract and said
  8.000 acre tract, South 85 degrees 50 minutes 00 seconds West, a
  distance of 400.00 feet to an "X" cut in concrete set at the
  southwest corner of said 8.000 acre and the herein described tract;
         Thence, with the west line of said 8.000 acre tract, a
  northeast line of said U of H tract and the east line of said 5.000
  acre tract, North 04 degrees 10 minutes 00 seconds West, at a
  distance of 436.49 feet pass a TxDOT disk found at the southeast
  corner of said 5.000 acre tract and continue in all a total distance
  of 872.87 feet to the Point of Beginning and containing 8.000 acres
  (348,480 square feet) of land.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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