1-1     By:  Counts, Jones of Lubbock                          H.B. No. 960
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-5     Intergovernmental Relations; April 22, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-6     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 22, 1999, sent to
 1-7     printer.)
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to regulation of the Sam Wahl Recreation Area at Lake Alan
1-11     Henry.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 231, Local Government Code,
1-14     is amended by adding Section 231.141 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 231.141.  REGULATION OF SAM WAHL RECREATION AREA. (a)
1-16     The Commissioners Court of Garza County may zone for commercial or
1-17     residential development the area adjacent to Lake Alan Henry known
1-18     as the Sam Wahl Recreation Area.
1-19           (b)  Notwithstanding this chapter, Chapter 253, or other law,
1-20     a municipality owning property in the Sam Wahl Recreation Area may
1-21     develop, change the use of, or dispose of the property.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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