By Jackson H.B. No. 1254 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings, 1-3 officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port 1-4 authorities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means a 1-7 navigation district or a port authority created under Section 52, 1-8 Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or 1-9 other public port authority. 1-10 SECTION 2. VALIDATION. The following are validated and 1-11 confirmed in all respects: 1-12 (1) all acts and governmental proceedings of a 1-13 district not excepted in this Act taken before March 1, 1997, are 1-14 validated as of the dates on which they occurred; 1-15 (2) all commissioners or other officials of a 1-16 district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the 1-17 effective date of this Act; and 1-18 (3) all bonds and other obligations of a district 1-19 authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all 1-20 proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are 1-21 related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether 1-22 the bonds or obligations are: 1-23 (A) payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or 1-24 (B) issued on or before the effective date of 2-1 this Act. 2-2 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 2-3 apply to: 2-4 (1) an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, 2-5 bond, or obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject 2-6 of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act; 2-7 (2) an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by 2-8 a district of any interest in real property that had originally 2-9 been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if 2-10 such act or proceeding by the district violated any restriction or 2-11 condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or 2-12 (3) an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117, 2-13 Water Code. This Act does not validate any governmental acts or 2-14 proceedings which, under the statutes of this state at the time the 2-15 actions or proceedings occurred, were a misdemeanor or a felony. 2-16 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-17 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-22 passage, and it is so enacted.