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. 1-28 * * * * *