By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 390 74R2812 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to land acquisitions by public entities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this 1-5 section, the Parks and Wildlife Department may not acquire real 1-6 property by purchase or gift until the department: 1-7 (1) completes and implements all management plans that 1-8 are required by the Parks and Wildlife Code; 1-9 (2) completes all renovation and new construction 1-10 projects that are authorized by that code; and 1-11 (3) assures that any area classified under Section 1-12 13.001, Parks and Wildlife Code, as a game management area, 1-13 recreational area, natural area, or historical area: 1-14 (A) is completely accessible to the public; and 1-15 (B) complies with the Americans with 1-16 Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et seq.). 1-17 (b) This section does not apply to land acquired by the 1-18 department to establish roads and trails that are necessary to 1-19 satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) of this section. 1-20 SECTION 2. Section 81.503, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-21 repealed. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.