By Bernsen                                            S.B. No. 1680
         76R6636 DWS-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to construction, repair, and maintenance of roads in or
 1-3     adjacent to certain state parks and wildlife facilities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 13, Parks and Wildlife
 1-6     Code, is amended by adding Section 13.021 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 13.021.  ROAD IN OR ADJACENT TO PARKS AND WILDLIFE
 1-8     FACILITY.  (a)  In this section, "parks and wildlife facility"
 1-9     means a state park, state fish hatchery, state wildlife management
1-10     area, or support facility for a state park, state fish hatchery, or
1-11     state wildlife management area.
1-12           (b)  The department shall obtain, by lease or by acquisition
1-13     of title, jurisdiction and control over public roads that provide
1-14     access to a parks and wildlife facility or that are located in or
1-15     adjacent to a parks and wildlife facility.
1-16           (c)  If no state highway provides direct access to a parks
1-17     and wildlife facility, the department shall construct, repair, and
1-18     maintain any road necessary to provide access between the facility
1-19     and a state highway.
1-20           (d)  If a public road under the jurisdiction of a
1-21     municipality or county is being used to enter a parks and wildlife
1-22     facility from a state highway, the department shall enter into an
1-23     agreement with the municipality or county for the use, repair, and
1-24     maintenance of the road.
 2-1           (e)  If the department does not have an easement,
 2-2     right-of-way, or public road access to a parks and wildlife
 2-3     facility, the department shall acquire, with the express written
 2-4     consent of all affected private landowners, any private land
 2-5     required for right-of-way purposes.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  Section 13.013, Parks and Wildlife Code, and
 2-7     Section 1.02, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called
 2-8     Session, 1991, are repealed.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.