82R9285 NC-F
By: Bonnen H.B. No. 2005
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the exchange 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 exchange the real property
described by Subsection (d) of this section.
(b) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall exchange 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.
(c) The property must be exchanged for other real property
with an equivalent fair market value.
(d) The Texas Board of Criminal Justice shall exchange 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.