By: Schwertner  S.B. No. 1758
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 20, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
  April 17, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
  the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to
  printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the use of certain land by The University of Texas
  System.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 70 (H.B. 800), Acts of the
  60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as
  follows:
         Section 1.  The Parks and Wildlife Department of the State of
  Texas is hereby authorized to convey or transfer and the Board of
  Regents of The University of Texas System is hereby authorized to
  accept for and on behalf of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
  Hospital and Tumor Institute any part or all of that certain
  described land in Bastrop County, Texas, conveyed to the Parks and
  Wildlife Department of the State of Texas by the City of Smithville,
  Texas, and Mrs. Elizabeth Buescher, et al, by deeds dated April 30,
  1936, and September 15, 1933, respectively, and which are recorded
  in Volume 97, page 40, and Volume 96, pages 595-6, of the Deed
  Records of Bastrop County, Texas, to which deeds and the record
  thereof reference is made for all purposes, said land to be used by
  The University of Texas System for any purpose consistent with the
  mission of the system or a component institution of the system [as a
  science park and for research purposes].
         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, 2023.
 
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