By Jackson H.B. No. 1254 75R5964 JMC-D 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 taken before the effective date of this Act; 1-14 (2) all commissioners or other officials of a 1-15 district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the 1-16 effective date of this Act; and 1-17 (3) all bonds and other obligations of a district 1-18 authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all 1-19 proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are 1-20 related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether 1-21 the bonds or obligations are: 1-22 (A) payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or 1-23 (B) issued on or before the effective date of 1-24 this Act. 2-1 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 2-2 apply to an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, bond, or 2-3 obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject of 2-4 litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act. 2-5 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-6 and the 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, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.