1-1 By: Jackson S.B. No. 296 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1999; February 1, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 March 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, 1-5 Nays 0; March 25, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the validation of all acts, governmental proceedings, 1-9 officials, bonds, and obligations of navigation districts and port 1-10 authorities. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "district" means a 1-13 navigation district or a port authority created under Section 52, 1-14 Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or 1-15 other public port authority. 1-16 SECTION 2. VALIDATION. The following are validated and 1-17 confirmed in all respects: 1-18 (1) all acts and governmental proceedings of a 1-19 district not excepted in this Act taken before March 1, 1999, are 1-20 validated as of the dates on which they occurred; 1-21 (2) all commissioners or other officials of a 1-22 district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the 1-23 effective date of this Act; and 1-24 (3) all bonds and other obligations of a district 1-25 authorized before the effective date of this Act, including all 1-26 proceedings taken before the effective date of this Act that are 1-27 related to those bonds or other obligations, regardless of whether 1-28 the bonds or obligations are: 1-29 (A) payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or 1-30 (B) issued on or before the effective date of 1-31 this Act. 1-32 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. (a) Section 2 of this Act does 1-33 not apply to: 1-34 (1) an act, proceeding, commissioner or official, 1-35 bond, or obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject 1-36 of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this Act; 1-37 (2) an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by 1-38 a district of any interest in real property that had originally 1-39 been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if 1-40 such act or proceeding by the district violated any restriction or 1-41 condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or 1-42 (3) an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117, 1-43 Water Code. 1-44 (b) This Act does not validate any governmental acts or 1-45 proceedings which, under the statutes of this state at the time the 1-46 acts or proceedings occurred, were a misdemeanor or a felony. 1-47 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-48 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-53 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-54 * * * * *