1-1           By:  Brown                                       S.B. No. 693

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 1997; February 25, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     March 17, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 17, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 693                    By:  Brown

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to standing to enforce restrictions pertaining to state

1-11     property.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources Code,

1-14     is amended by adding Section 31.068 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 31.068.  STANDING TO ENFORCE RESTRICTIONS.  The

1-16     commissioner and the attorney general have standing to enforce

1-17     restrictive covenants affecting real property owned by the

1-18     permanent school fund or a state agency and restrictions expressed

1-19     in any transfer document, or any legislative act, conveying real

1-20     property then owned by the state.  The attorney general acting on

1-21     his own, or on behalf of the commissioner, may bring suit to

1-22     enforce the rights of the state under this section.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall not

1-24     apply to any cause of action pending before the courts of this

1-25     state on the effective date of this Act.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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