1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 708 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 1997; February 26, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 24, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 24, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lindsay 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 708 by striking the existing SECTION 3 and 1-8 substituting the following: 1-9 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 1-10 apply to: 1-11 (1) an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, 1-12 bond, or obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject 1-13 of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act; 1-14 (2) an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by 1-15 a district of any interest in real property that had originally 1-16 been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if 1-17 such act or proceeding by the district violated any restriction or 1-18 condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or 1-19 (3) an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117, 1-20 Water Code. 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings, 1-24 officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port 1-25 authorities. 1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-27 SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means a 1-28 navigation district or a port authority created under Section 52, 1-29 Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or 1-30 other public port authority. 1-31 SECTION 2. VALIDATION. The following are validated and 1-32 confirmed in all respects: 1-33 (1) all acts and governmental proceedings of a 1-34 district taken before the effective date of this Act; 1-35 (2) all commissioners or other officials of a 1-36 district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the 1-37 effective date of this Act; and 1-38 (3) all bonds and other obligations of a district 1-39 authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all 1-40 proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are 1-41 related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether 1-42 the bonds or obligations are: 1-43 (A) payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or 1-44 (B) issued on or before the effective date of 1-45 this Act. 1-46 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act does not 1-47 apply to an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, bond, or 1-48 obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject of 1-49 litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act. 1-50 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-51 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-55 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-56 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-57 * * * * *