By Patterson                                    S.B. No. 1338

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain construction within 200 feet landward of the

 1-3     natural vegetation line in certain coastal counties.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 61.011, Natural Resources Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

 1-7           (f)  The commissioner by rule may not prohibit a local

 1-8     government from issuing a permit or certificate authorizing the

 1-9     construction, within 200 feet landward of the line of vegetation,

1-10     of a concrete slab that is reinforced only by fiber fill and that

1-11     is not larger than four feet by four feet.  This subsection applies

1-12     only in a county that is adjacent to a county with a population of

1-13     over 2.5 million and that is contiguous to the Gulf of Mexico.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.