Bill Text: TX HB2004 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of certain state property in Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2004-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2004 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the House on April | ||
27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2004 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2004 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |