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   1-21  repealed.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.