By Uher                                                H.B. No. 779
         77R2879 MI-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the establishment of a line of vegetation along the
 1-3     Gulf of Mexico in certain areas of public beach.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 61.017, Natural Resources Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)(1)  In an area of public beach where a combination stone
 1-8     revetment and concrete sheet pile wall constructed in its entirety
 1-9     as a single structure before 1999 and continuously maintained with
1-10     a height of not less than five feet above mean low tide interrupts
1-11     the natural line of vegetation for a distance not less than 7.5
1-12     miles and not more than 8.5 miles, the line of vegetation is along
1-13     the seaward side of the stone revetment and concrete sheet pile
1-14     wall for the distance marked by the stone revetment and concrete
1-15     sheet pile wall.
1-16                 (2)  A line of vegetation established as described by
1-17     this subsection is the landward boundary of the public beach and of
1-18     the public easement for all purposes.  Fee title to all submerged
1-19     land as described in this code shall remain in the State of Texas.
1-20           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.