By:  Estes                                                        S.B. No. 1602
	(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2005; March 23, 2005, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 
April 18, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9, 
Nays 0; April 18, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to surveys accepted by the Commissioner of the General 
Land Office for filing in the official records of the General Land 
Office.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.044, Natural Resources Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d)  Nothing in this section shall require the commissioner 
or any surveyor to reperform all or part of any survey after the 
date such survey is accepted by the commissioner for filing in the 
official records of the land office.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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