1-1     By:  Bernsen                                           S.B. No. 632
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2001; February 12, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; March 1, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 1, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of certain counties to prohibit traffic
 1-9     on certain areas of public beaches.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 61.122, Natural Resources
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The commissioners court of a county bordering on the
1-14     Gulf of Mexico or its tidewater limits, by order, may regulate
1-15     motor vehicle traffic on any beach within the boundaries of the
1-16     county, including prohibiting motor vehicle traffic on any natural
1-17     or man-made sand dune or other form of shoreline protection, and
1-18     may prohibit the littering of the beach and may define the term
1-19     "littering."
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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