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. 1-26 * * * * *