Bill Text: TX HB3402 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the sale of certain state property in Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [HB3402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3402-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of certain state property in Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [HB3402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3402-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Bonnen of Brazoria (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | H.B. No. 3402 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017; | ||
| May 4, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
| Justice; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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 June 30, 2018, the Texas | ||
| Board of Criminal Justice shall sell the real property described by | ||
| Subsection (d) of this section if the board receives a bid for the | ||
| fair market value of 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 (d) of this section. | ||
| (c) In this section, "proposed reservoir tract" means the | ||
| 2,200 acres sold in Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal | ||
| Justice in 2011. | ||
| (d) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall sell the real | ||
| property described as follows: | ||
| Approximately 22 acres, more or less, along the un-named tributary | ||
| to Oyster Creek within the 2,682 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 | ||
| lying within the Stephen F. Austin League No 8, Abstract 25 in | ||
| Brazoria County, Texas near the City of Angleton, Texas. The | ||
| approximate boundaries of the 22 acres are: starting at the | ||
| confluence of the un-named tributary to Oyster Creek and the Oyster | ||
| Creek channel which is located approximately 673 feet north of the | ||
| proposed reservoir tract, extending north approximately 3,660 feet | ||
| along the un-named tributary to Oyster Creek and extending east and | ||
| west of the centerline of said tributary approximately 130 feet; | ||
| And, approximately 274 acres along Oyster Creek, more or less, | ||
| being part of the 2,682 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 of Brazoria County, Texas lying within | ||
| the Stephen F. Austin League No. 8, Abstract 25; and the Stephen | ||
| Richardson League, abstract 122; and the William Harris League, | ||
| abstract 71 in Brazoria County, Texas near the City of Angleton, | ||
| Texas. The approximate boundaries of the 274 acres are: from the | ||
| confluence of the un-named tributary to Oyster Creek and the Oyster | ||
| Creek channel, located approximately 673 feet north of the | ||
| northeast corner of the proposed reservoir tract to the northeast | ||
| corner of the proposed reservoir tract and extending east and west | ||
| of the centerline of the Oyster Creek Channel approximately 220 | ||
| feet; from the northeast corner of the proposed reservoir tract to | ||
| the intersection of the center line of Oyster Creek with the eastern | ||
| boundary of the old railroad grade road, lands that extend from | ||
| approximately 220 feet east of the center line of Oyster Creek, | ||
| westward and southward to the proposed reservoir tract; land | ||
| extending south and westward from the intersection of centerline of | ||
| Oyster Creek and the eastern boundary of the old railroad Grade | ||
| road, south through points defined by latitude and longitude | ||
| coordinates: | ||
| Latitude: 29.260925°, Longitude: -95.527633°; | ||
| Latitude: 29.260682°, Longitude: -95.526219°; | ||
| Latitude: 29.259672°, Longitude: -95.525333°; | ||
| Latitude: 29.259409°, Longitude: -95.523467°; | ||
| Latitude: 29.259481°, Longitude: -95.521911°; | ||
| Latitude: 29.259356°, Longitude: -95.521045°; and | ||
| Latitude: 29.258961°, Longitude: -95.520931° with the southern | ||
| boundary being formed by the southern limits of contiguous land | ||
| conveyed to the Prison Commission of the State of Texas. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
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