1-1 By: Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1359 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995; 1-3 May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 2; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to road construction, repair, and maintenance in certain 1-9 areas controlled by the Parks and Wildlife Department. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 1.02, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd 1-12 Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is amended to read as 1-13 follows: 1-14 Sec. 1.02. Notwithstanding any other law, the Texas 1-15 Department of Transportation shall construct, repair, and maintain 1-16 roads in and adjacent to state parks, state fish hatcheries, state 1-17 wildlife management areas, and support facilities for parks, fish 1-18 hatcheries, and wildlife management areas. Where the Parks and 1-19 Wildlife Department has no easement, right-of-way, or similar 1-20 access to or in a state park, state fish hatchery, state wildlife 1-21 management area, or support facility, none may be obtained 1-22 hereunder without the express written consent of all affected 1-23 private landowners. Any private land required for right-of-way 1-24 purposes shall be acquired by the Department of Transportation. 1-25 Construction, maintenance, repairs or acquisition made under this 1-26 section shall be paid from the State Highway Fund. 1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *