By Armbrister S.B. No. 937 76R6248 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notice of availability of coastal public lands for 1-3 lease. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Natural Resources Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 33.1035 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 33.1035. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF COASTAL PUBLIC LAND 1-8 FOR LEASE. (a) The land office shall post notice of the 1-9 availability of coastal public land for lease: 1-10 (1) at the administrative office of the land office in 1-11 Austin; 1-12 (2) at the county courthouse in the county where the 1-13 coastal public land available for lease is located; and 1-14 (3) on the land office's Internet site. 1-15 (b) The land commissioner shall adopt rules regarding time 1-16 and date of posting notice under this section and any other matters 1-17 necessary to the implementation of this section. 1-18 SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 1999, the commissioner 1-19 of the General Land Office shall adopt rules necessary to implement 1-20 Section 33.1035, Natural Resources Code, as added by this Act. 1-21 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 (b) The notice requirement of Section 33.1035, Natural 1-23 Resources Code, as added by this Act, applies only to coastal 1-24 public land that becomes available for lease on or after December 2-1 1, 1999. 2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.