By Truitt                                             H.B. No. 2052
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the acquisition of property for certain purposes by
 1-3     populous home-rule municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 22.075, Transportation
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A joint board for which the constituent agencies are
 1-8     populous home-rule municipalities may not acquire in fee simple
 1-9     property in a municipality to enlarge an airport operated by the
1-10     joint board, including property acquired for the runway protection
1-11     zone and for mitigating the effects of additional airport noise
1-12     caused by the enlargement of the airport, [in more than an
1-13     aggregate of 10 percent of that portion of the land area of the
1-14     airport that is in the municipality] unless the joint board has the
1-15     consent of the municipality.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act take effect September 1, 2001.