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HB5290 • 2025

Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Walle
Last action
2025-04-25
Official status
04/25/2025 H Posting rule suspended
Effective date
Not listed

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Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  2. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  3. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Transportation

  4. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 5290 - Introduced version - Bill Text

89R3765 RAL-D

By: Walle

H.B. No. 5290

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas

Department of Transportation to the University of Houston.

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

SECTION 1. (a) Not later than December 31, 2025, the Texas

Department of Transportation shall donate and transfer to the

University of Houston the real property described by Subsection (e)

of this section.

(b) The University of Houston may use the property

transferred under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the

public interest of the state. If the University of Houston uses the

property for any purpose other than a purpose described by this

subsection, ownership of the property automatically reverts to the

Texas Department of Transportation.

(c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall transfer

the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer. The

instrument of transfer must:

(1) provide that:

(A) the University of Houston may use the

property only for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the

state; and

(B) ownership of the property will automatically

revert to the Texas Department of Transportation if the University

of Houston uses the property for any purpose other than a purpose

described by Paragraph (A) of this subdivision; and

(2) describe the property to be transferred by metes

and bounds.

(d) The Texas Department of Transportation shall retain

custody of the instrument of transfer after the instrument of

transfer is filed in the real property records of Fort Bend County.

(e) The real property referred to in this section consists

of the following six tracts of land:

1 Parcel: P00074662 (S1)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-03-616

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: West line of Milam Street, Houston, TX 77002

Property Location: West line of Milam Street, north of

Washington Avenue and south of Interstate Highway 10

Legal Description: 1.06 acres (46,067 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

2 Parcel: P00074663 (S2)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-03-616

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: 0 Interstate Highway 10, Houston, TX 77002

Property Location: Northeast corner of Milam Street and Girard

Street

Legal Description: 2.40 acres (104,502 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

3 Parcel: P00074664 (S3)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-03-616

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: West line of North Main Street, Houston, TX

77002

Property Location: West line of North Main Street at Wood

Street

Legal Description: 1.22 acres (53,245 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

4 Parcel: P00074665 (S4)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-08-002

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: 0 Interstate Highway 10, Houston, TX 77002

Property Location: Northeast corner of North Main Street and

Wood Street

Legal Description: 0.91 acre (39,557 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

5 Parcel: P00074666 (S5)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-08-002

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: 0 Interstate Highway 10, Houston, TX 77002

Property Location: Northwest corner of Rothwell Street and

North San Jacinto Street

Legal Description: 0.84 acre (36,680 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

6 Parcel: P00074667 (S6)

Address of Property Owner: N/A

ROW CSJ: 0500-08-002

Owner: State of Texas

Property Address: 0 Interstate Highway 10, Houston, TX 77002

Property Location: Northeast corner of Rothwell Street and

North San Jacinto Street

Legal Description: 5.16 acres (224,610 square feet) tract being

out of North Side of Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Harris County,

Texas

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.