SRC-MWN S.B. 670 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 670
By: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Natural Resources
5/21/2001
Enrolled


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Port authorities are not included under the Navigation Act. S.B. 670
validates and confirms all acts and governmental proceedings, officials,
bonds and obligations of navigation districts and port authorities. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. DEFINITION.  Defines "district."

SECTION 2. VALIDATION. Provides that the following are validated and
confirmed in all aspects: any act or governmental proceeding of a district
not excepted in this Act taken before March 1, 2001, is validated as of the
date on which it occurred; any commissioner or other official of a
district, whether elected or appointed, who took office before the
effective date of this Act; and any bond or other obligation of a district
authorized before the effective date of this Act, including any proceeding
taken before the effective date of this Act that is related to that bond or
other obligation, regardless of whether the bond or obligation is payable
from tax revenue or otherwise; or issued on or before the effective date of
this Act. 

SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. Provides that SECTION 2 of this Act does not
apply to an act, proceeding, commissioner, other official, bond, or other
obligation the validity of which or of whom is the subject of litigation
that is pending on the effective date of this Act; an act or proceeding
relating to the conveyance by a district of any interest in real property
that had originally been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by
the state if the act or proceeding by the district violated a restriction
or condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or an act or
proceeding that violated Section 61.117 (Limitations on Sales and Use of
State Lands and Flats), Water Code. Provides that this Act does not
validate any governmental act or proceeding that, under the law of this
state at the time the act or proceeding occurred, was a misdemeanor or a
felony.  

SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2001.