74R9708 MI-D
          By Jackson                                            H.B. No. 2148
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2148:
          By Hamric                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2148
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain structures on coastal public land.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 33.125 and 33.127, Natural Resources
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 33.125.  Automatic Revocation and Termination of a
    1-7  Permit.  (a)  A permit that authorizes the continued use of a
    1-8  previously unauthorized structure on coastal public land may be <is
    1-9  considered automatically> revoked and terminated, at the board's
   1-10  discretion, if the coastal public land on which the structure is
   1-11  located is:
   1-12              (1)  subsequently leased for public purposes
   1-13  incompatible with the continued presence of the structure;
   1-14              (2)  exchanged for littoral property under this
   1-15  chapter; or
   1-16              (3)  conveyed to a navigation district as provided by
   1-17  law.
   1-18        (b)  The board may authorize the relocation of the structure
   1-19  to another site instead of revoking or terminating the permit.
   1-20        Sec. 33.127.  Terms and Renewal of Permits.  Permits may be
   1-21  issued for a term to be determined by the board <period of not more
   1-22  than five years> and may be renewed at the discretion of the board.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 33.124, Natural Resources Code, is
    2-1  repealed.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.