1-1     By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)              H.B. No. 2572
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 13, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                           By:  Armbrister
 1-8           Amend H.B. 2572 in SECTION 1 of the bill, in Section
 1-9     272.001(h), Local Government Code, by striking the added sentence
1-10     (page 1, lines 34-37, Engrossed version) and substituting the
1-11     following:
1-12     To protect the public health, safety, or welfare and to ensure an
1-13     adequate municipal water supply, property sold by the municipality
1-14     under this subsection is not eligible for and the owner is not
1-15     entitled to the exemption provided by Section 11.142(a), Water
1-16     Code.  The instrument conveying property under this subsection must
1-17     include a provision stating that the exemption does not apply to
1-18     the conveyance.
1-19                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20                                   AN ACT
1-21     relating to the reservation of riparian rights associated with land
1-22     sold by certain municipalities.
1-23           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24           SECTION 1.  Section 272.001(h), Local Government Code, is
1-25     amended to read as follows:
1-26           (h)  A municipality having a population of 250,000 or less
1-27     and owning land within 5,000 feet of where the shoreline of a lake
1-28     would be if the lake were filled to its storage capacity may,
1-29     without notice or the solicitation of bids, sell the land to the
1-30     person leasing the land for the fair market value of the land as
1-31     determined by a certified appraiser.  While land described by this
1-32     subsection is under lease, the municipality owning the land may not
1-33     sell the land to any person other than the person leasing the land.
1-34     To protect the public health, safety, or welfare and to ensure an
1-35     adequate municipal water supply, the municipality may reserve all
1-36     or part of the riparian rights associated with land sold under this
1-37     subsection.  In this subsection, "lake" means an inland body of
1-38     standing water, including a reservoir formed by impounding the
1-39     water of a river or creek but not including an impoundment of salt
1-40     water or brackish water, that has a storage capacity of more than
1-41     10,000 acre-feet.
1-42           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-43     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48     passage, and it is so enacted.
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