1-1        By:  Wentworth                                  S.B. No. 1378
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                           By:  Barrientos
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 1378 by striking Subsection (d), Section 1, and
    1-8  substituting the following:
    1-9        (d)  This section applies to property:
   1-10              (1)  that borders on a reservoir, all or a portion of
   1-11  which has been annexed and later de-annexed;
   1-12              (2)  that is located in a county containing a
   1-13  municipality that has a population of more than 400,000; and
   1-14              (3)  that lies outside the city limits of any city.
   1-15        (e)  A political subdivision that accepts and uses money
   1-16  granted under this section to plan, acquire, or develop a park,
   1-17  recreational area, or open space area on property described in
   1-18  Subsection (d) may transfer title to the property to a
   1-19  nongovernmental entity if the instrument of transfer restricts the
   1-20  use of the area to the purpose for which a grant under the program
   1-21  was awarded, as set forth in the grant documents.  All funds
   1-22  received by the political subdivision shall go into a fund
   1-23  dedicated to the purchase or improvement of other property for
   1-24  outdoor public recreational use.
   1-25                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-26                                AN ACT
   1-27  relating to disposition of certain areas acquired or improved by a
   1-28  political subdivision with grants of money from the Texas
   1-29  recreation and parks account.
   1-30        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-31        SECTION 1.  Section 24.005, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
   1-32  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-33        (d)  A political subdivision that accepts and uses money
   1-34  granted under this section to plan, acquire, or develop a park,
   1-35  recreational area, or open space area may transfer title to the
   1-36  area to a nongovernmental entity if the instrument of transfer
   1-37  restricts the use of the area to park, recreational, or open space
   1-38  purposes.  If the area is used by the entity for another purpose,
   1-39  all right, title, and interest reverts to the political
   1-40  subdivision.
   1-41        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-42  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-43  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-44  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-45  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-46  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-47  passage, and it is so enacted.
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