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By: Lindsay S.J.R. No. 30
(In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2003; February 27, 2003,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
April 7, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 1; April 7, 2003, sent to printer.)
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the provision of
parks and recreational facilities by certain conservation and
reclamation districts.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 59, Article XVI, Texas
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The conservation and development of all of the natural
resources of this State, and development of parks and recreational
facilities, including the control, storing, preservation and
distribution of its storm and flood waters, the waters of its rivers
and streams, for irrigation, power and all other useful purposes,
the reclamation and irrigation of its arid, semi-arid and other
lands needing irrigation, the reclamation and drainage of its
overflowed lands, and other lands needing drainage, the
conservation and development of its forests, water and
hydro-electric power, the navigation of its inland and coastal
waters, and the preservation and conservation of all such natural
resources of the State are each and all hereby declared public
rights and duties; and the Legislature shall pass all such laws as
may be appropriate thereto.
SECTION 2. The legislature intends by the amendment
proposed by Section 1 of this resolution to expand the authority of
conservation and reclamation districts with respect to parks and
recreational facilities. The proposed amendment should not be
construed as a limitation on the powers of a district as those
powers exist immediately before the amendment takes effect.
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2003.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to the
provision of parks and recreational facilities by certain
conservation and reclamation districts."
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