AN ACT

 1-1     relating to standing to enforce restrictions relating to state

 1-2     property.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 31.068 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 31.068.  STANDING TO ENFORCE RESTRICTIONS.  (a)  The

 1-7     commissioner and the attorney general have standing to enforce a:

 1-8                 (1)  restrictive covenant affecting real property owned

 1-9     by the permanent school fund or a state agency;

1-10                 (2)  restriction expressed in a transfer document or

1-11     legislative act conveying real property then owned by the state; or

1-12                 (3)  statutory restriction on the sale or lease of land

1-13     patented or leased by the state to a navigation district, including

1-14     a restriction provided by Section 61.116 or 61.117, Water Code.

1-15           (b)  The attorney general, on the attorney general's own

1-16     initiative or at the request and on behalf of the commissioner, may

1-17     bring suit to enforce the rights of the state under this section.

1-18           (c)  This section does not apply to:

1-19                 (1)  permanent university fund land; or

1-20                 (2)  other real property controlled or administered by

1-21     the board of regents of The University of Texas System.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act does not apply to a cause of action that

1-23     is pending in a court of this state on the effective date of this

 2-1     Act.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 693 passed the Senate on

         March 26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that

         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 18, 1997, by the

         following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 693 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 13, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 143,

         Nays 0, two present not voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

         _______________________________

                     Date

         _______________________________

                   Governor