By Duncan                                              S.B. No. 271
         76R1718 CAG-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to regulation of the Sam Wahl Recreation Area at Lake Alan
 1-3     Henry.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 231, Local Government Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 231.141 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 231.141.  REGULATION OF SAM WAHL RECREATION AREA. (a)
 1-8     The commissioners court of Garza County may zone for commercial or
 1-9     residential development the area adjacent to Lake Alan Henry known
1-10     as the Sam Wahl Recreation Area.
1-11           (b)  Notwithstanding this chapter, Chapter 253, or other law,
1-12     a municipality owning property in the Sam Wahl Recreation Area may
1-13     develop, change the use of, or dispose of the property.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.