By:  Munoz                                             H.B. No. 730
       73R3671 LJD-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the acceptance of the retrocession of jurisdiction over
    1-3  land owned by the United States of America to this state.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The governor may accept from the United States of
    1-6  America the retrocession of jurisdiction, in whole or in part, of
    1-7  land in this state that  is owned by the United States of America,
    1-8  if the governor finds that accepting the retrocession of
    1-9  jurisdiction is in the best interests of this state.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  If an authorized agent of the government of the
   1-11  United States of America notifies this state in writing that the
   1-12  United States wishes to retrocede jurisdiction of land in this
   1-13  state to this state, the governor shall accept or decline the
   1-14  retrocession of jurisdiction in writing and shall file the
   1-15  acceptance or declination with the secretary of state.  If the
   1-16  governor accepts the retrocession of jurisdiction, the acceptance
   1-17  is effective on filing the acceptance with the secretary of state.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.