By Zbranek H.B. No. 539 76R1881 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to construction, repair, and maintenance of roads in or 1-3 adjacent to certain state parks and wildlife facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Transportation Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 250.002 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 250.002. ROAD IN OR ADJACENT TO PARKS AND WILDLIFE 1-8 FACILITY. (a) In this section, "parks and wildlife facility" 1-9 means a state park, state fish hatchery, state wildlife management 1-10 area, or support facility for a state park, state fish hatchery, or 1-11 state wildlife management area. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall 1-13 construct, repair, and maintain roads in and adjacent to a parks 1-14 and wildlife facility. 1-15 (c) If no state highway provides direct access to a parks 1-16 and wildlife facility, the department shall construct, repair, and 1-17 maintain any road necessary to provide access between the facility 1-18 and a state highway. If the road is under the jurisdiction of a 1-19 municipality or county, the department shall enter an agreement 1-20 with the municipality or county under which the department 1-21 constructs, repairs, and maintains the road. 1-22 (d) The department shall acquire any private land required 1-23 for right-of-way purposes. If the Parks and Wildlife Department 1-24 does not have an easement, right-of-way, or similar access to a 2-1 parks and wildlife facility, none may be obtained under this 2-2 section without the express written consent of all affected private 2-3 landowners. 2-4 (e) Construction, repairs, maintenance, or acquisitions made 2-5 under this section shall be paid from the state highway fund. 2-6 SECTION 2. Section 13.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, and 2-7 Section 1.02, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called 2-8 Session, 1991, are repealed. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.