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