AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings,
 1-2     officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port
 1-3     authorities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  DEFINITION.  In this Act, "district" means a
 1-6     navigation district or a port authority created under Section 52,
 1-7     Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or
 1-8     other public port authority.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  VALIDATION.  The following are validated and
1-10     confirmed in all respects:
1-11                 (1)  all acts and governmental proceedings of a
1-12     district not excepted in this Act taken before March 1, 1999, are
1-13     validated as of the dates on which they occurred;
1-14                 (2)  all commissioners or other officials of a
1-15     district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the
1-16     effective date of this Act; and
1-17                 (3)  all bonds and other obligations of a district
1-18     authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all
1-19     proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are
1-20     related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether
1-21     the bonds or obligations are:
1-22                       (A)  payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or
1-23                       (B)  issued on or before the effective date of
1-24     this Act.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  APPLICABILITY.  (a)  Section 2 of this Act does
 2-2     not apply to:
 2-3                 (1)  an act, proceeding, commissioner or official,
 2-4     bond, or obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject
 2-5     of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act;
 2-6                 (2)  an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by
 2-7     a district of any interest in real property that had originally
 2-8     been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if
 2-9     such act or proceeding by the district violated any restriction or
2-10     condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or
2-11                 (3)  an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117,
2-12     Water Code.
2-13           (b)  This Act does not validate any governmental acts or
2-14     proceedings which, under the statutes of this state at the time the
2-15     acts or proceedings occurred, were a misdemeanor or a felony.
2-16           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
2-17     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 296 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 296 passed the House on
         May 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor