1-1  By:  Jackson (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)             H.B. No. 2177
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings,
    1-9  officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  In this Act, "district" means a navigation
   1-12  district created under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59,
   1-13  Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The following are validated and confirmed in all
   1-15  respects:
   1-16              (1)  all acts and governmental proceedings of a
   1-17  district taken before the effective date of this Act;
   1-18              (2)  all commissioners or other officials of a district
   1-19  that took office before the effective date of this Act;
   1-20              (3)  all bonds and other obligations of a district
   1-21  authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all
   1-22  proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are
   1-23  related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether
   1-24  the bonds or obligations are:
   1-25                    (A)  payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or
   1-26                    (B)  issued on or before the effective date of
   1-27  this Act.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  Section 2 of this Act does not apply to an act,
   1-29  proceeding, commissioner or official, bond, or obligation the
   1-30  validity of which or of whom is the subject of litigation that is
   1-31  pending on the effective date of this Act.
   1-32        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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