H.B. No. 917




AN ACT

relating to the authority of counties and municipalities to incur 
debt to participate in erosion response projects undertaken by the 
General Land Office.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 421.002, Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 421.002.  AUTHORIZED PROJECTS; DEBT.  (a)  The 
commissioners court of the county or the municipal authority of the 
municipality may:
		(1)  establish, construct, extend, maintain, or 
improve a seawall, breakwater, levee, floodway, or drainway; [and]
		(2)  improve, maintain, or beautify a boulevard erected 
in connection with the seawall, breakwater, levee, floodway, or 
drainway; and
		(3)  for purposes of implementing Subchapter H, Chapter 
33, Natural Resources Code:
			(A)  participate as a qualified project partner 
for an erosion response project undertaken by the General Land 
Office, as those terms are defined by Section 33.601, Natural 
Resources Code; and
			(B)  undertake or contribute to the funding of:                       
				(i)  beach renourishment on public beaches, 
as defined by Section 61.012, Natural Resources Code; or
				(ii)  any other erosion response project as 
defined by Section 33.601, Natural Resources Code, on waterways, 
bays, and bay shorelines.
	(b)  The commissioners court or municipal authority may 
incur debt for a purpose authorized under Subsection (a).
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 917 was passed by the House on April 
3, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 
No. 917 on May 26, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 
present, not voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 917 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 24, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 
0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor