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. 1-49 * * * * *