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         By Brown                                               S.B. No. 693

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 693:

         By Turner of Coleman                               C.S.S.B. No. 693

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to standing to enforce restrictions relating to state

 1-3     property.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 31.068 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 31.068.  STANDING TO ENFORCE RESTRICTIONS.  (a)  The

 1-8     commissioner and the attorney general have standing to enforce a:

 1-9                 (1)  restrictive covenant affecting real property owned

1-10     by the permanent school fund or a state agency;

1-11                 (2)  restriction expressed in a transfer document or

1-12     legislative act conveying real property then owned by the state; or

1-13                 (3)  statutory restriction on the sale or lease of land

1-14     patented or leased by the state to a navigation district, including

1-15     a restriction provided by Section 61.116 or 61.117, Water Code.

1-16           (b)  The attorney general, on the attorney general's own

1-17     initiative or at the request and on behalf of the commissioner, may

1-18     bring suit to enforce the rights of the state under this section.

1-19           (c)  This section does not apply to:

1-20                 (1)  permanent university fund land; or

1-21                 (2)  other real property controlled or administered by

1-22     the board of regents of The University of Texas System.

1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act does not apply to a cause of action that

1-24     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.