By:  Chisum                                           H.B. No. 1233
       73R3937 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to emergency access to private land by persons designated
    1-3  by a commissioners court of a county.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 11, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Chapter 360 to read as follows:
    1-7      CHAPTER 360.  MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY PROVISIONS
    1-8        Sec. 360.001.  EMERGENCY ENTRY ON PRIVATE LAND.  The
    1-9  commissioners court may authorize appropriate persons to enter
   1-10  private land as the commissioners court determines necessary to
   1-11  protect individuals or animals endangered by a natural emergency.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.