By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 456
       74R1432 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration of certain structures located on
    1-3  coastal public land.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Natural Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 33.1325 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 33.1325.  REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN STRUCTURES.  (a)  A
    1-8  structure is considered to have been registered as required by
    1-9  Section 11, Chapter 185, Acts of the 63rd Legislature, Regular
   1-10  Session, 1973 (Article 5415e-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), on
   1-11  or before December 31, 1973, if the structure:
   1-12              (1)  was in existence on January 1, 1955; and
   1-13              (2)  is located on coastal public land bordered by or
   1-14  contiguous to a barrier island in a county with a population of
   1-15  more than 250,000.
   1-16        (b)  A person claiming a right in a structure described by
   1-17  Subsection (a) shall comply with rules of the board governing a
   1-18  person who claims a right in a structure registered on or before
   1-19  December 31, 1973.  The board may not require a person claiming a
   1-20  right in a structure described by Subsection (a) to pay a
   1-21  registration fee.
   1-22        (c)  An easement or lease entered into, or permit issued,
   1-23  under this chapter before September 1, 1995, that purports to apply
   1-24  to a structure described by Subsection (a) is void.  This
    2-1  subsection does not entitle a person claiming a right in a
    2-2  structure described by Subsection (a) to recover a payment made
    2-3  under an easement, lease, or permit before September 1, 1995.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.