By Alexander                                          H.B. No. 1359
       74R5441 PAM-F
                                 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.  Any private land
   1-13  required for right-of-way purposes shall be acquired by the
   1-14  Department of Transportation.  Construction, maintenance, repairs
   1-15  or acquisition made under this section shall be paid from the State
   1-16  Highway Fund.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   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                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   1-24        Amend H.B. 1359 on page 1, line 12 after "management areas."
    2-1  by adding the following:
    2-2        Where the Parks and Wildlife Department has no easement,
    2-3  right-of-way or similar access to or in a state park, state fish
    2-4  hatchery, state wildlife management area or support facility, none
    2-5  may be obtained hereunder without the express written consent of
    2-6  all affected private landowners.
    2-7                                                                Bosse