1-1     By:  Lindsay, Whitmire                                S.B. No. 1500
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 12, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1500              By:  Armbrister
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the use of property acquired by certain municipalities
1-11     as a site for an airport.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 22.027 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 22.027.  USE OF PROPERTY ACQUIRED AS SITE FOR AIRPORT.
1-16     (a)  A municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more that
1-17     acquires property for use as a site for an airport:
1-18                 (1)  shall use the property for that purpose; and
1-19                 (2)  may not use the property for any other purpose,
1-20     including to provide a mitigation credit under Section 404, Federal
1-21     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1344), or under the
1-22     guidelines developed by the Secretary of the Army in accordance
1-23     with that section to offset an adverse impact to wetlands caused by
1-24     the discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters
1-25     at another disposal site.
1-26           (b)  This section expires September 1, 2005.
1-27           SECTION 2.  Section 22.027, Transportation Code, as added by
1-28     this Act, applies to property acquired by a municipality before,
1-29     on, or after the effective date of this Act.
1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36     passage, and it is so enacted.
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