1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the reservation of riparian rights associated with land
 1-3     sold by certain municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 272.001(h), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  A municipality having a population of 250,000 or less
 1-8     and owning land within 5,000 feet of where the shoreline of a lake
 1-9     would be if the lake were filled to its storage capacity may,
1-10     without notice or the solicitation of bids, sell the land to the
1-11     person leasing the land for the fair market value of the land as
1-12     determined by a certified appraiser.  While land described by this
1-13     subsection is under lease, the municipality owning the land may not
1-14     sell the land to any person other than the person leasing the land.
1-15     To protect the public health, safety, or welfare and to ensure an
1-16     adequate municipal water supply, property sold by the municipality
1-17     under this subsection is not eligible for and the owner is not
1-18     entitled to the exemption provided by Section 11.142(a), Water
1-19     Code.  The instrument conveying property under this subsection must
1-20     include a provision stating that the exemption does not apply to
1-21     the conveyance.  In this subsection, "lake" means an inland body of
1-22     standing water, including a reservoir formed by impounding the
1-23     water of a river or creek but not including an impoundment of salt
1-24     water or brackish water, that has a storage capacity of more than
 2-1     10,000 acre-feet.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2572 was passed by the House on April
         23, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
         No. 2572 on May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0,
         2 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2572 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor