bill leasing Austin State Hospital land to Travis County

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89R8125 RAL-D

By: Perry
S.B. No. 2719

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the lease of certain state property from the Department

of State Health Services to Travis County.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective

date of this Act, the Department of State Health Services shall

lease to Travis County the real property described by Section 2 of

this Act.

(b) The consideration for the lease authorized by this

section is the requirement that Travis County use the leased

property only in a manner that primarily promotes a public purpose

of this state. If Travis County fails to use the property in a

manner described by this subsection for more than 180 continuous

days, the lease terminates and possession of the property

automatically reverts to the Department of State Health Services.

(c) The Department of State Health Services shall lease the

property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The instrument

of transfer must:

(1) provide that:

(A) Travis County may use the property only in a

manner that primarily promotes a public purpose of this state;

(B) the lease will terminate and possession of

the property will automatically revert to the Department of State

Health Services if Travis County fails to use the property in a

manner described by Paragraph (A) of this subdivision for more than

180 continuous days;

(C) the lease shall be for a term of 99 years; and

(D) Travis County may:

(i) operate and maintain public amenities

on the property; and

(ii) construct and demolish improvements,

utilities, infrastructure, and amenities on the property; and

(2) describe the leased property by metes and bounds.

(d) The Department of State Health Services shall retain

custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of

transfer is filed in the real property records of Travis County.

(e) Sections 533.084 and 533.087, Health and Safety Code,

and Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, do not apply to the

lease of real property authorized by this Act.

SECTION 2. The real property referred to in Section 1 of

this Act is described as follows:

A PORTION OF THE AUSTIN STATE HOSPITAL TRACT

DESCRIPTION OF 16.08 ACRES (700,675 SQUARE FEET), MORE OR LESS, OF

LAND AREA IN THE JAMES ROGERS SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO. 660, IN THE CITY

OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, BEING A PORTION OF OUTLOT 79 AND

OUTLOT 80, DIVISION D AND THE 80 FOOT WIDE ROAD TRAVERSING DIVISION

D AND LYING NORTH OF OUTLOT 79 AND SOUTH OF OUTLOT 80, AS SHOWN ON

THE MAP OF THE GOVERNMENT TRACT ADJOINING THE CITY OF AUSTIN, ON

FILE IN THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND BEING A

PORTION OF THOSE TRACTS OF LAND CONVEYED IN A DEED DATED APRIL 4,

1857, FROM WILLIAM FIELDS TO THE STATE OF TEXAS, AS RECORDED IN

VOLUME L-1, PAGE 366, DEED RECORDS OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND IN A

DEED DATED FEBRUARY 18, 1858, FROM WILLIAMS FIELDS TO THE STATE OF

TEXAS, AS RECORDED IN VOLUME M, PAGE 129, DEED RECORDS OF TRAVIS

COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BEING MORE PARTICIULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND

BOUNDS AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING at a 1" iron pipe found [N=10,085,257.1900,

E=3,115,232.4450] at the westerly northeast corner of that 38.535

acre portion of the aforereferenced State of Texas Tracts described

in that "Master Lease" per the Memorandum of Lease Agreement

between the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental

Retardation, and West 38th Street, LTD. dated January 9, 1992 as

recorded in Volume 11602, Page 858, Real Property Records of Travis

County, Texas, same being the northeast corner of that 12.799 acre

portion of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract described in that

Exhibit 1 Memorandum of Sublease to HEBCO Development, Inc. dated

April 26, 1991, as recorded in Volume 11602, Page 863, Real Property

Records of Travis County, Texas, and being the northwest corner of

the herein described tract of land;

THENCE leaving the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract and the HEBCO

Development Lease Tract, and crossing the remainder of the

aforereferenced State of Texas Tracts, the following three (3)

courses:

1. S 61°57'00"E 738.55 feet to a mag nail set with washer

marked "TC-TNR", for the northeast corner of the herein described

tract of land;

2. S 12°37'20"E 358.59 feet to a mag nail set with washer

marked "TC-TNR", for the northeast corner of the herein described

tract of land; and

3. S 13°16'57"E 334.77 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", in the east

line of the State of Texas Tracts, same being the west line of

Guadalupe Street;

THENCE with the common line of the State of Texas Tracts and said

Guadalupe Street, S 27°35'04"W 334.12 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set

with an aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for the

southeast corner of the herein described tract of land, from which a

calculated point for the easterly northeast corner of 38.535 acre

Master Lease Tract bears S 27°35'04"W 41.11 feet, and from which, a

1/2" iron rod found for reference, bears S 48°09'10"W 39.99 feet;

THENCE leaving Guadalupe Street and crossing the remainder of the

State of Texas Tracts, the following eleven (11) courses:

1. N 61°54'32"W 61.96 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point;

2. S 81°56'45"W 37.68 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point;

3. N 62°46'13"W 220.17 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", to a point at

the beginning of a right breaking curve;

4. with said right breaking curve having a radius length of

94.00 feet, an arc length of 69.19 feet, and a chord which bears N

75°5'35" W 67.64 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an aluminum cap

marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT" at the beginning of a right

breaking curve, said iron rod set, being located 3.25 feet north of

an north line of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract;

5. with said right breaking curve having a radius length of

197.50 feet, an arc length of 136.27 feet, and a chord which bears N

34°51'09" W 133.58 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an aluminum cap

marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT" for an angle point;

6. N 01°00'15" E 43.94 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT" at the

beginning of a right breaking curve;

7. with said right breaking curve having a radius length of

41.00 feet, an arc length of 49.50 feet, and a chord which bears N

34°29'28" W 46.55 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an aluminum cap

marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT";

8. N 18°10'54"E 33.78 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point, said iron rod set, being located 0.75 of a foot east of an

east line of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract;

9. N 74°07'59"E 51.32 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point;

10. N 24°26'32"E 71.15 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", at the

beginning of a left breaking curve; and

11. with said left breaking curve having a radius length of

180.00 feet, an arc length of 93.40 feet, and a chord which bears N

05°48'02"E 92.36 feet to a 1" iron pipe found for an exterior corner

of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract;

THENCE leaving the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract and crossing the

remainder of the State of Texas Tracts, the following four (4)

courses:

1. N 59°32'54"W 350.73 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point;

2. N 43°03'29"W 104.81 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", for an angle

point; and

3. N 57°27'47"W 30.60 feet to a 5/8" iron rod set with an

aluminum cap marked "TRAVIS COUNTY TNR SURVEY DEPT", in an easterly

line of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract, same being the east line

of the HEBCO Development Lease Tract, for the southwest corner of

the herein described tract of land, from which, a calculated point

for an interior corner of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract, bears

S 27°34'11"W 62.26 feet, and a calculated point for the southeast

corner of the HEBCO Development Lease Tract, bears S 27°34'11"W 1.39

feet;

THENCE with the common line of the 38.535 acre Master Lease Tract

and the HEBCO Development Lease Tract, N 27°34'11"E 567.56 feet to

the PLACE OF BEGINNING. There are contained within these metes and

bounds 16.08 acres (700,675 square feet), more or less, of land area

as surveyed on the ground by the Travis County Transportation and

Natural Resources Survey Department of Austin, Texas.

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, 2025.