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By:  Gallego                                                      H.B. No. 3434



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to concurrent state and federal legislative jurisdiction 
over units of the national park system in this state.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 23, Parks and Wildlife 
Code, is amended by adding Section 23.0011 to read as follows:
	Sec. 23.0011.  CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF PARK RESIDENTS.  
The civil and political rights of a person who resides inside the 
boundaries of Big Bend National Park and applicable portions of the 
Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River are preserved and are not impaired by 
this state's acceptance of concurrent legislative jurisdiction 
under Section 23.051 of this chapter.
	SECTION 2.  Chapter 23, Parks & Wildlife Code, is amended by 
adding Subchapter E, Section 23.051, to read as follows:
	Sec. 23.051.  Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction.  (a)  
Simultaneously with the acceptance of concurrent legislative 
jurisdictional authorized by subsection (b) of this section, the 
Governor, on behalf of the state, shall cede to the United States 
concurrent legislative jurisdiction over all lands and waters now 
owned or hereafter acquired by the United States within the 
boundaries of any unit of the national park system in the state that 
are or would be, if not for this cession, under proprietorial 
federal jurisdiction.  This cession of jurisdiction will be 
effective when an authorized official of the National Park Service, 
United States Department of the Interior, accepts it in writing.
	(b)  Simultaneously with the cession of concurrent 
legislative jurisdiction authorized by subsection (a) of this 
section, the Governor, on behalf of the state, and shall accept from 
an authorized official of the National Park Services, United States 
Department of the Interior, a retrocession of concurrent 
legislative jurisdiction over the lands and waters within the 
boundaries of Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and 
Scenic River, Texas, that now are under exclusive federal 
Jurisdiction.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  Not later than October 1, 2003, the governor 
shall forward a copy of this Act to an authorized official of the 
National Park Service, United Sates Department of the Interior, to 
request consideration and acceptance of the changes in jurisdiction 
proposed in this Act.
	(b)  If the Governor receives written confirmation from an 
authorized official of the National Park Service, United States 
Department of the Interior, that the National Park Service accepts 
the changes in jurisdiction made by this Act, the Governor shall 
publish in the Texas Register a notice of that confirmation.  The 
Governor shall publish notice not later that the 21st day after the 
date the confirmation is received.
	SECTION 4.  (a)  Sections 1 and 2 of this Act will take effect 
on the date of which the Governor publishes the notice required by 
Section 3 of this Act.  If the required notice is not published by 
September 1, 2004, then sections 1 and 2 of this Act will have no 
effect.
	(b)  Section 3 of this Act and this section take effect 
immediately if this act 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 Section 3 and this section to take effect 
immediately, Section 3 and this section take effect September 1, 
2003.