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2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB3751
HB3751 directs the Texas Department of Transportation to transfer a three-acre Woodville property, including its attached improvements, to the Texas Department of Public Safety by November 30, 2025.
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of certain real property from the Texas Department of Transportation to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Official report lists House author(s): Ashby. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB3751 directs the Texas Department of Transportation to transfer a three-acre Woodville property, including its attached improvements, to the Texas Department of Public Safety by November 30, 2025.
- The property is the transportation department’s maintenance-barn and office site situated primarily at 715 Pine Street, Woodville, Tyler County.
- The act creates a direct transfer between two state agencies.
- The act does not set a purchase price, appropriate construction funding, or promise a particular new public service at the site.
What does it do?
HB3751 directs the Texas Department of Transportation to transfer a three-acre Woodville property, including its attached improvements, to the Texas Department of Public Safety by November 30, 2025. It took effect September 1, 2025. Final law.
The property is the transportation department’s maintenance-barn and office site situated primarily at 715 Pine Street, Woodville, Tyler County. The act identifies it by the appraisal-district description “A0657 J. Wheat Block 42 Tract 11 Acres 3.0000.” The transfer document must describe the land by metes and bounds—that is, its specific boundary measurements.
The act creates a direct transfer between two state agencies. It expressly makes Transportation Code Chapter 202 and Natural Resources Code Sections 31.1571, 31.158 and 31.159 inapplicable to this transfer. Those provisions otherwise address matters including disposal of transportation property, General Land Office handling of certain state-property transactions, and the School Land Board’s first purchase option. The bill does not repeal them for other properties.
The act does not set a purchase price, appropriate construction funding, or promise a particular new public service at the site. Its legal deadline is not proof that the agencies completed the deed on time.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill, House report, engrossed text, Senate report and final law have the same operative provisions. The version index lists those texts; the amendment index reports no amendments. Both committees reported it without amendments.
The House passed it 144–4, with two present but not voting; the Senate passed it 31–0. The governor signed it June 20, 2025. Official history.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.
Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
DPS gains the site and attached improvements; the transportation department must complete the conveyance and give up the property. The special procedure avoids using the ordinary state-property disposition process for this particular transfer. Whether residents gain additional services depends on later agency decisions, not a service commitment in this act.
The May 12 fiscal note, like the introduced bill’s note, anticipates no fiscal implication to the state or local governments. It does not appraise the land or separately estimate future renovation, staffing or operating costs.
Review boundary: This is a review of the transfer law and its fiscal estimate, not a title search, survey verification or confirmation that a deed was recorded by the deadline.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.
