Bill Text: TX HB2724 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain state property in Walker County from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the board of regents of the Texas State University System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2724 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2724-Comm_Sub.html
83R14726 NC-F | |||
By: Otto | H.B. No. 2724 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2724: | |||
By: Deshotel | C.S.H.B. No. 2724 |
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relating to the transfer of certain state property in Walker County | ||
from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the board of regents of | ||
the Texas State University System. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) Not later than January 1, 2014, the Texas | ||
Board of Criminal Justice shall donate and transfer the real | ||
property described by Subsection (e) of this section to the board of | ||
regents of the Texas State University System for use by Sam Houston | ||
State University. | ||
(b) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall convey the | ||
property by a deed without warranty regarding covenants of title. | ||
(c) The deed must include a provision that: | ||
(1) requires Sam Houston State University to use the | ||
property primarily for a purpose that benefits the public interest | ||
of the state; and | ||
(2) indicates that ownership of the property will | ||
automatically revert to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice if Sam | ||
Houston State University fails to use the property primarily for a | ||
purpose that benefits the public interest of the state. | ||
(d) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall retain custody | ||
of the deed after the deed is filed in the real property records of | ||
Walker County. | ||
(e) The real property referred to in this section is | ||
described as follows: | ||
Being 78.823 acres of land, more or less, situated in the City | ||
of Huntsville, P. GRAY SURVEY, Abstract No. 24, Walker County, | ||
Texas and being out of and a part of a called 515 acre tract as | ||
described in a Deed from Ed H. Cunningham, et al to the State of | ||
Texas, dated July 10, 1883 and recorded in Volume Y, Page 181, Deed | ||
Records, said 78.823 acre tract being more definitely described as | ||
follows: | ||
BEGINNING at the northeast corner of a called 5.00 acre | ||
tract, out of said 515 acre tract, as described in a Deed from the | ||
Texas Board of Criminal Justice, on behalf of the Texas Department | ||
of Criminal Justice, to the County of Walker (Veteran's Complex), | ||
dated October 29, 2003 and recorded in Volume 595, Page 210, | ||
Official Records, found a 5/8" iron rod with a plastic cap in the | ||
south right-of-way of State Highway 75, being a 50 foot strip | ||
(called 3.78 acres) conveyed to the State of Texas in Volume 209, | ||
Page 707, Deed Records, said iron rod having coordinates of | ||
N:10263383.58, E:3788833.74 and being the most northerly northwest | ||
corner of the herein described tract; | ||
THENCE S83°08'57"E, with the south right-of-way of said S.H. | ||
75, for a distance of 1245.10 feet to a called angle point of said | ||
3.78 acre tract (TxDOT Station 79+76.59), set a 5/8" iron rod, with | ||
a plastic cap; | ||
THENCE N70°17'06"E, continuing with the south right-of-way of | ||
said S.H. 75, for a distance of 95.23 feet to its intersection with | ||
the east line of said 515 acre tract, same being the apparent | ||
northwest corner of a called 5.51 acre tract as described in a Deed | ||
from E. A. Heaton to Carol Joe Heaton, dated February 19, 1966 and | ||
recorded in Volume 198, Page 501, Deed Records, set a 5/8" iron rod | ||
with a plastic cap for the northeast corner of the herein described | ||
tract, from which a 5" square concrete monument, found for the | ||
northeast corner of said 515 acre tract, bears NO2°32'37"W- 551.88 | ||
feet; | ||
THENCE S02°32'37"E, with the east line of said 515 acre tract | ||
and the called west line of said Heaton tract, at 660.0 pass the | ||
apparent southwest corner of said Heaton tract, continuing for a | ||
total distance of 2649.68 feet to its intersection with the | ||
northeast right-of-way of Interstate Highway No. 45, as described | ||
in "Tract No. 1 (called 55.13 acres)" in a Right of Way Deed from the | ||
Texas Prison Board to the Texas State Highway Commission, dated | ||
July 19, 1957 and recorded in Volume 158, Page 177, Deed Records, | ||
set a 5/8" iron rod with a plastic cap at a fence corner post for the | ||
southeast corner of the herein described tract, from said iron rod a | ||
5" square concrete monument, found for the southeast corner of said | ||
515 acre tract, bears S02°32'37"E- 2574.60 feet; | ||
THENCE, with the northeast lines of said I.H. 45, as | ||
presently monumented, the following calls: | ||
1). N47°43'50"W- 1972.52 feet to a found TxDOT concrete | ||
monument; | ||
2). N49°39'48"W- 259.16 feet to a found TxDOT concrete | ||
monument; | ||
3). N51°28'15"W- 258.69 feet to a found TxDOT concrete | ||
monument; | ||
4). N53°43'57"W- 250.31 feet to a found TxDOT concrete | ||
monument; | ||
and 5). N55°10'12"W, at 356.2 feet pass a point in a creek for | ||
the south corner of a right-of-way easement (called 2.744 acres) | ||
from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the Texas | ||
Transportation Commission, dated January 6, 2000 and recorded in | ||
Volume 412, Page 149, Official Records, continuing for a total | ||
distance of 404.59 feet to a 5/8" iron rod, with a plastic cap, set | ||
for the southwest corner of the herein described tract; | ||
THENCE N29°54'57"E, crossing said right-of-way easement, at | ||
28.58 feet pass a northeasterly line of said easement, same being | ||
the south corner of a called 10.01 acre tract, out of said 515 acre | ||
tract, as described in a Deed from the County of Walker to the Texas | ||
Prison Museum, dated July 16, 2001 and recorded in Volume 466, Page | ||
755, Official Records, continuing with the southeast line of said | ||
10.01 acre tract, at 171.32 feet pass a point for the west corner of | ||
a sanitary sewer, drainage and road easement (called 0.455 acre) as | ||
described in a Deed from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to the | ||
County of Walker, dated May 7, 2004 and recorded in Volume 634, Page | ||
550, Official Records, continuing with the common line of said | ||
10.01 acre and 0.455 acre tracts, for a total distance of 501.32 | ||
feet to the southwest corner of said County of Walker 5.00 acre | ||
tract (Veteran's Complex), same being the northwest corner of said | ||
0.455 acre tract, found a 5/8" iron rod with a plastic cap; | ||
THENCE S83°08'48"E, with the south line of said 5.00 acre | ||
tract (Veteran's Complex), for a distance of 659.91 feet to its | ||
southeast corner, set a 5/8" iron rod at a fence corner post; | ||
THENCE N06°51'03"E, with the east line of said 5.00 acre | ||
tract, for a distance of 375.56 feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING. | ||
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, 2013. |