Bill Text: TX SB2148 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of certain state property in Brazoria County by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2148 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2148-Introduced.html
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 2148 | |
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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 of at | ||
least $740,000 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 (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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
continguous 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. |