By Seaman H.B. No. 2813
76R6248 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to notice of availability of coastal public lands for
1-3 lease.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Natural Resources Code,
1-6 is amended by adding Section 33.1035 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 33.1035. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF COASTAL PUBLIC LAND
1-8 FOR LEASE. (a) The land office shall post notice of the
1-9 availability of coastal public land for lease:
1-10 (1) at the administrative office of the land office in
1-11 Austin;
1-12 (2) at the county courthouse in the county where the
1-13 coastal public land available for lease is located; and
1-14 (3) on the land office's Internet site.
1-15 (b) The land commissioner shall adopt rules regarding time
1-16 and date of posting notice under this section and any other matters
1-17 necessary to the implementation of this section.
1-18 SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 1999, the commissioner
1-19 of the General Land Office shall adopt rules necessary to implement
1-20 Section 33.1035, Natural Resources Code, as added by this Act.
1-21 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22 (b) The notice requirement of Section 33.1035, Natural
1-23 Resources Code, as added by this Act, applies only to coastal
1-24 public land that becomes available for lease on or after December
2-1 1, 1999.
2-2 SECTION 4. 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.