Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1050 adds a new section to the Natural Resources Code to establish provisions relating to artificial processes and the effect on ownership of coastal public land. The act defines "erosion response" and prohibits a person from performing an action relating to erosion response on a public beach that will cause or contribute to shoreline alteration before the person has conducted and filed a coastal boundary survey approved by the land commissioner. Senate Bill 1050 also requires a person who claims title to land as a result of accretion, reliction, or avulsion within areas where the shoreline may have been changed due to erosion response activities to prove certain facts in order to prevail in the claim. The act also entitles an upland owner who ceases to hold title to certain land as a result of erosion response activity by the land commissioner to exercise all littoral rights the owner possessed before the erosion response activity began.