The bill orders the Texas Department of Transportation to hand over its 3-acre maintenance barn and office site at 715 Pine Street in Woodville, Tyler County, to the Texas Department of Public Safety by November 30, 2025. It touches only those two state agencies and that one parcel, and it waives the usual state property-transfer rules in the Transportation Code and Natural Resources Code for this deal. On the ground, DPS takes title to the land and buildings, and the site moves from one state agency to another.
relating to the transfer of certain real property from the Texas
Department of Transportation to the Texas Department of Public
Safety.
WHAT IT DOES
3 acres at 715 Pine Street, by November 30, 2025.
The bill orders the Texas Department of Transportation to hand over its 3-acre maintenance barn and office site at 715 Pine Street in Woodville, Tyler County, to the Texas Department of Public Safety by November 30, 2025. It touches only those two state agencies and that one parcel, and it waives the usual state property-transfer rules in the Transportation Code and Natural Resources Code for this deal. On the ground, DPS takes title to the land and buildings, and the site moves from one state agency to another.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Nichols moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3751 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Nichols moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3751 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
The following bills which were considered on second reading on the previous legislative day on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar were laid before the house, read third time, and passed by the following record vote (members registering votes and the results of the vote are shown following the bill number). (Record 1573): 148 Yeas, 0 Nays, 2 Present, not voting.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 144 (published)
Nay: 4 (published)
Present, not voting: 2 (published)
Absent: 0 (derived from named list)
Excused: 0 (derived from named list)
House journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses3
For
0
Against
1
On
2
Names
Against
Self1 registration
On
Texas Department of Transportation2 registrations
Sources
3 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.
Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.
House committee · Transportation · Committee vote 9 aye, 0 nay, 4 absent · Out of committee
Senate committee · Transportation · Committee vote 9 aye, 0 nay · Out of committee
Subjects
Property Interests--Real Property
Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
Text
The text as introduced · 233 words
89R11675 JBD-D
By: Ashby
H.B. No. 3751
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the transfer of certain real property from the Texas
Department of Transportation to the Texas Department of Public
Safety.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) Not later than November 30, 2025, the Texas
Department of Transportation shall transfer the real property
described by Section 2 of this Act to the Texas Department of Public
Safety, including the improvements affixed to the property.
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer that
describes the property to be transferred by metes and bounds.
(c) Chapter 202, Transportation Code, and Sections 31.1571,
31.158, and 31.159, Natural Resources Code, do not apply to the
transfer of real property authorized by Subsection (a) of this
section.
SECTION 2. The real property to which Section 1 of this Act
applies is described as follows:
The real property title to which is held by the Texas
Department of Transportation consisting of the site of the Texas
Department of Transportation maintenance barn and offices,
situated primarily at 715 Pine Street, Woodville, Tyler County,
Texas, constituting 3 acres of land and more particularly described
as A0657 J. Wheat Block 42 Tract 11 Acres 3.0000 by the Tyler County
Appraisal District records.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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