By Junell                                             H.B. No. 2572
         76R8846 PAM-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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, the municipality may reserve all
1-17     or part of the riparian rights associated with land sold under this
1-18     subsection.  In this subsection, "lake" means an inland body of
1-19     standing water, including a reservoir formed by impounding the
1-20     water of a river or creek but not including an impoundment of salt
1-21     water or brackish water, that has a storage capacity of more than
1-22     10,000 acre-feet.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.