1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the exchange and conveyance of lands by certain
 1-3     navigation districts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 1, Chapter 176, Acts of the 54th
 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 8247f, Vernon's Texas
 1-7     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 1.  The Governing Board of any navigation district in
 1-9     this State heretofore or hereafter created under the laws of this
1-10     State [and having within its limits a city containing two hundred
1-11     and fifty thousand (250,000) population or more according to the
1-12     latest preceding or any future Federal Census] shall have and there
1-13     is hereby conferred the right, power and authority, when in the
1-14     opinion of a majority of said Governing Board it is necessary,
1-15     desirable or advantageous to the interest of said navigation
1-16     district so to do, to exchange lands with any other public or
1-17     private landowner, or, as an incident to the acquisition of lands
1-18     for the uses and purposes of said navigation district, to make
1-19     conveyance to another state or federal governmental entity, person,
1-20     firm or corporation of lands owned and held by said navigation
1-21     district the ownership and use of which was no longer necessary or
1-22     desirable or the use of which lands was not as feasible or
1-23     desirable for the public purposes of said navigation district as is
1-24     and as will be the lands to be acquired by said navigation
 2-1     district, in accordance with any terms, conditions, or stipulations
 2-2     agreed on by the parties to the exchange or conveyance.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  Section 1 of this Act does not:
 2-4                 (1)  affect a limitation or condition contained in:
 2-5                       (A)  a lease of land by the state to a navigation
 2-6     district; or
 2-7                       (B)  a conveyance of land from the state to a
 2-8     navigation district under former Article 8225, Revised Statutes, or
 2-9     any other general or special law; or
2-10                 (2)  in any way affect Section 61.116 or 61.117, Water
2-11     Code.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3620 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 3620 on May 22, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 3620 on May 30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3620 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         3620 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor