By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1378
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to disposition of certain areas acquired or improved by a
    1-2  political subdivision with grants of money from the Texas
    1-3  recreation and parks account.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 24.005, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  This section applies to property:
    1-8              (1)  that borders on a reservoir, all or a portion of
    1-9  which has been annexed and later de-annexed;
   1-10              (2)  that is located in a county containing a
   1-11  municipality that has a population of more than 400,000; and
   1-12              (3)  that lies outside the city limits of any city.
   1-13        (e)  A political subdivision that accepts and uses money
   1-14  granted under this section to plan, acquire, or develop a park,
   1-15  recreational area, or open space area on property described in
   1-16  Subsection (d) may transfer title to the property to a
   1-17  nongovernmental entity if the instrument of transfer restricts the
   1-18  use of the area to the purpose for which a grant under the program
   1-19  was awarded, as set forth in the grant documents.  All funds
   1-20  received by the political subdivision shall go into a fund
   1-21  dedicated to the purchase or improvement of other property for
   1-22  outdoor public recreational use.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.