By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 3060
       74R5890 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the construction of a resort hotel in Palo Duro Canyon
    1-3  State Park.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  The Parks and Wildlife Department shall
    1-6  advertise for bids to lease land to a private entity for not more
    1-7  than 30 years to construct, operate, and maintain a resort hotel in
    1-8  Palo Duro Canyon State Park.  The department may reject any or all
    1-9  bids received.
   1-10        (b)  Before entering into a lease under this Act, the Parks
   1-11  and Wildlife Commission by rule shall adopt guidelines for the
   1-12  construction, operation, and maintenance of the hotel.  The lease
   1-13  must include in its terms the guidelines adopted by the commission.
   1-14  The lessee defaults under the lease if the lessee fails to comply
   1-15  with or enforce a guideline adopted by the commission.
   1-16        (c)  The lessee may construct the hotel or contract with
   1-17  another person to construct the hotel.
   1-18        (d)  The contract for the construction of the hotel must:
   1-19              (1)  include in its terms the guidelines adopted by the
   1-20  commission; and
   1-21              (2)  require that the hotel be:
   1-22                    (A)  completed by January 31, 1999; and
   1-23                    (B)  designed and constructed:
   1-24                          (i)  to include:
    2-1                                (a)  at least 100 guest rooms;
    2-2                                (b)  dining facilities; and
    2-3                                (c)  at least one banquet room;
    2-4                          (ii)  to limit, by reasonable means,
    2-5  adverse impact to park surroundings; and
    2-6                          (iii)  in a manner that is aesthetically
    2-7  compatible with park surroundings.
    2-8        (e)  Ownership of the hotel and other improvements on the
    2-9  leased land revert without cost to the department on the earlier of
   2-10  the date:
   2-11              (1)  the lessee defaults under the lease; or
   2-12              (2)  the lease expires.
   2-13        (f)  Proceeds from the lease  may be used only for the
   2-14  purpose of maintaining the park and enhancing park facilities.
   2-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.