By Patterson                                     S.B. No. 708

      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.