1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 271
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to regulation of the Sam Wahl Recreation Area at Lake Alan
 1-9     Henry.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 231, Local Government Code,
1-12     is amended by adding Section 231.141 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 231.141.  REGULATION OF SAM WAHL RECREATION AREA.  (a)
1-14     The commissioners court of Garza County may zone for commercial or
1-15     residential development the area adjacent to Lake Alan Henry known
1-16     as the Sam Wahl Recreation Area.
1-17           (b)  Notwithstanding this chapter, Chapter 253, or other law,
1-18     a municipality owning property in the Sam Wahl Recreation Area may
1-19     develop, change the use of, or dispose of the property.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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