By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1359
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to road construction, repair, and maintenance in certain
    1-3  areas controlled by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 1.02, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd
    1-6  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        Sec. 1.02.  Notwithstanding any other law, the Texas
    1-9  Department of Transportation shall construct, repair, and maintain
   1-10  roads in and adjacent to state parks, state fish hatcheries, state
   1-11  wildlife management areas, and support facilities for parks, fish
   1-12  hatcheries, and wildlife management areas.  Where the Parks and
   1-13  Wildlife Department has no easement, right-of-way, or similar
   1-14  access to or in a state park, state fish hatchery, state wildlife
   1-15  management area, or support facility, none may be obtained
   1-16  hereunder without the express written consent of all affected
   1-17  private landowners.  Any private land required for right-of-way
   1-18  purposes shall be acquired by the Department of Transportation.
   1-19  Construction, maintenance, repairs or acquisition made under this
   1-20  section shall be paid from the State Highway Fund.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   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.