By: Galloway S.B. No. 1922
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the definition of coastal wetlands for purposes of the
1-2 coastal management program administered by the Coastal Coordination
1-3 Council.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subdivision (7), Section 33.203, Natural
1-6 Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (7) "Coastal wetlands" means wetlands, as the term is
1-8 defined by Section 11.502, Water Code, located:
1-9 (A) seaward of the coastal facility designation
1-10 line established by rules adopted under Chapter 40;
1-11 (B) within rivers and streams, to the extent of
1-12 tidal influence, as shown on the Texas Natural Resource
1-13 Conservation Commission's stream segment maps, excluding the
1-14 portion of the Trinity River located in Liberty County;
1-15 (C) within one mile of the mean high tide of the
1-16 portion of river and stream described by Paragraph (B), except as
1-17 provided by Paragraphs (D) and (E);
1-18 (D) in the case of wetlands bordering the
1-19 portion of the Trinity River to which [described by] Paragraph (B)
1-20 applies:
1-21 (i) within the area located between the
1-22 mean high tide line on the western shoreline of that portion of the
1-23 river and Farm-to-Market Road 565 and Farm-to-Market Road 1409; or
2-1 (ii) within the area located between the
2-2 mean high tide line on the eastern shoreline of that portion of the
2-3 river and Farm-to-Market Road 563; or
2-4 (E) in the case of wetlands bordering the
2-5 portion of the Neches River described by Paragraph (B):
2-6 (i) within one mile from the mean high
2-7 tide line of the western shoreline of that portion of the river
2-8 described by Paragraph (B); or
2-9 (ii) within the area located between the
2-10 mean high tide line on the eastern shoreline of that portion of the
2-11 river and Farm-to-Market Road 105.
2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.