Texas HB 3751: Relating to venue and choice of law for certain actions involving censorship by social media platforms.

Status: Committee report sent to Calendars (as of 2023-05-02)

State: Texas · Session: 88 · Bill: HB 3751

Subjects: Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065), Courts--Civil Procedure (I0135), Electronic Information Systems (I0311), INTERNET (S0130)

Sponsors: Cain, Schofield, Smith, Thompson, Ed, Vasut, Hefner

Bill Text

89(R) HB 3751 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

  

  

  
 H.B. No. 3751

  

  

  

  

 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.

  

  

  
 ______________________________
 ______________________________

  
    President of the Senate
 Speaker of the House     

  

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 3751 was passed by the House on May 7, 

   

 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 4, 2 present, not 

   

 voting.

   

   

 ______________________________

   

 Chief Clerk of the House   

  

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 3751 was passed by the Senate on May 

   

 20, 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

   

   

 ______________________________

   

 Secretary of the Senate    

   

 APPROVED:  _____________________

   

                    Date          

   

  

   

           _____________________

   

                  Governor       

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