By Seaman                                       H.B. No. 3227

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to authorizing interlocal agreements between certain

 1-3     political subdivisions to establish shoreline development projects.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 791, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 791.031 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 791.031.  CONTRACTS FOR SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.

 1-8     (a)  In this section, "shoreline development project" means a

 1-9     publicly owned recreational and tourism facility located on public

1-10     land, a bay estuary, tidally influenced waters, or land adjacent to

1-11     public land, a bay estuary, or tidally influenced waters.

1-12           (b)  A county, municipality, or navigation district of this

1-13     state may contract with another county, municipality, or navigation

1-14     district of this state to finance, develop, construct, acquire,

1-15     operate, or maintain a shoreline development project.

1-16           (c)  A participating municipality, county, or navigation

1-17     district may issue bonds to finance the project's acquisition,

1-18     development, or construction.  The bonds must be issued in the

1-19     manner prescribed by law for the issuance of permanent improvement

1-20     bonds.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.