SRC-TAG C.S.S.B. 442 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 442
78R7680 SMH-FBy: Janek
Natural Resources
3/5/2003
Committee Report (Substituted)

DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, Section 61.022 of the Natural Resource Code allows any
municipal utility district, water district, or political subdivision to
conduct beach front projects which aid navigation and the protection of
the shoreline.  C.S.S.B  442 provides that a coastal public works project
must be partnered with a city or county government as an instrument for
such coastal public works projects. 

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.  Amends Section 61.022(a), Natural Resources Code, as follows:

(a)  Provides that the provisions of this subchapter do not prevent the
following governmental entities, from erecting or maintaining certain
beach front projects: a federal or state agency, department, institution,
or instrumentality; a county; a municipality; or certain state
subdivisions acting in partnership with the county or municipality in
which the structure is located.  Makes nonsubstantive changes.  

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2003. 


SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1.  Differs from original by altering the placement of proposed
new text in Section 61.022(a), Natural Resources Code, and by describing
the final listed governmental entity which may erect or maintain certain
coastal projects as "a subdivision of this state, other than a county or
municipality, acting in partnership with the county or municipality in
which the structure is located." rather than, as in the original, "a
subdivision or instrumentality of this state acting in partnership with a
county or municipality."