H.B. No. 3636
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to DeWitt County.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) Not later than December 31, 2029, and
subject to Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, the Texas
Board of Criminal Justice shall transfer to DeWitt County the real
property described by Section 2 of this Act.
(b) The transfer authorized by Subsection (a) of this
section must be for consideration in an amount not less than the
fair market value of the property. The historical fair market value
of the real property as of December 2, 1992, shall be offered to
establish the fair market value of the property.
(c) The General Land Office shall negotiate and close a
transaction under this section on behalf of the Texas Board of
Criminal Justice.
(d) Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, does not apply
to a transaction under this section.
SECTION 2. The real property held by the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice is land being situated in DeWitt County, Texas,
and more particularly described as follows:
BEING all that certain parcel or tract containing 100.00 Acres of
land out of the Samuel Lockhart League A-28 located in DeWitt
County, Texas, and being out of the easterly portion of a called
464.03-Acre tract described in deed to the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice-State of Texas from the City of Cuero recorded in
Vol. 360 Page 139 in the deed records of said County;
Said 100.00-Acre tract being bounded as follows:
1. On the north, by the northerly line of a said 464.03-Acre
tract;
2. One the east, by the easterly line of said 464.03-Acre
tract;
3. On the south, by the southerly line of said 464.03-Acre
tract;
4. On the west, by a line being perpendicular to the
southerly line of said 464.03-Acre tract, at a location
sufficiently west of the easterly line of said 464.03-Acre tract so
as to include exactly 100.00 Acres of land.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3636 was passed by the House on April
18, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 3636 on May 24, 2019, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 3636 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3636 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
3636 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor