1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 670
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2001; February 14, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     February 21, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     4, Nays 0; February 21, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the validation of any act, governmental proceeding,
 1-9     official, bond, or obligation of a navigation district or port
1-10     authority.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  DEFINITION.  In this Act, "district" means a
1-13     navigation district or port authority created under Section 52,
1-14     Article III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, or
1-15     other public port authority.
1-16           SECTION 2.  VALIDATION.  The following are validated and
1-17     confirmed in all respects:
1-18                 (1)  any act or governmental proceeding of a district
1-19     not excepted in this Act taken before March 1, 2001, is validated
1-20     as of the date on which it occurred;
1-21                 (2)  any commissioner or other official of a district,
1-22     whether elected or appointed, who took office before the effective
1-23     date of this Act; and
1-24                 (3)  any bond or other obligation of a district
1-25     authorized before the effective date of this Act, including any
1-26     proceeding taken before the effective date of this Act that is
1-27     related to that bond or other obligation, regardless of whether the
1-28     bond or obligation is:
1-29                       (A)  payable from tax revenue or otherwise; or
1-30                       (B)  issued on or before the effective date of
1-31     this Act.
1-32           SECTION 3.  APPLICABILITY.  (a)  Section 2 of this Act does
1-33     not apply to:
1-34                 (1)  an act, proceeding, commissioner, other official,
1-35     bond, or other obligation the validity of which or of whom is the
1-36     subject of litigation that is pending on the effective date of this
1-37     Act;
1-38                 (2)  an act or proceeding relating to the conveyance by
1-39     a district of any interest in real property that had originally
1-40     been patented or otherwise conveyed to the district by the state if
1-41     the act or proceeding by the district violated a restriction or
1-42     condition of the patent or other conveyance from the state; or
1-43                 (3)  an act or proceeding that violated Section 61.117,
1-44     Water Code.
1-45           (b)  This Act does not validate any governmental act or
1-46     proceeding that, under the law of this state at the time the act or
1-47     proceeding occurred, was a misdemeanor or a felony.
1-48           SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
1-49     1, 2001.
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