Bill Text: TX SB1758 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain land by The University of Texas System.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective immediately [SB1758 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1758-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Schwertner S.B. No. 1758
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 20, 2023, read
first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
April 17, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of certain land by The University of Texas
System.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 70 (H.B. 800), Acts of the
60th Legislature, Regular Session, 1967, is amended to read as
follows:
Section 1. The Parks and Wildlife Department of the State of
Texas is hereby authorized to convey or transfer and the Board of
Regents of The University of Texas System is hereby authorized to
accept for and on behalf of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute any part or all of that certain
described land in Bastrop County, Texas, conveyed to the Parks and
Wildlife Department of the State of Texas by the City of Smithville,
Texas, and Mrs. Elizabeth Buescher, et al, by deeds dated April 30,
1936, and September 15, 1933, respectively, and which are recorded
in Volume 97, page 40, and Volume 96, pages 595-6, of the Deed
Records of Bastrop County, Texas, to which deeds and the record
thereof reference is made for all purposes, said land to be used by
The University of Texas System for any purpose consistent with the
mission of the system or a component institution of the system [as a
science park and for research purposes].
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, 2023.
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