Amend CSHB 770 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the 
bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 61.018, Natural Resources Code, is 
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and 
(a-2) to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), any [Any] county 
attorney, district attorney, or criminal district attorney, or the 
attorney general at the request of the commissioner, shall file in a 
district court of Travis County, or in the county in which the 
property is located, a suit to obtain either a temporary or 
permanent court order or injunction, either prohibitory or 
mandatory, to remove or prevent any improvement, maintenance, 
obstruction, barrier, or other encroachment on a public beach, or 
to prohibit any unlawful restraint on the public's right of access 
to and use of a public beach or other activity that violates this 
chapter.
	(a-1)  A county attorney, district attorney, or criminal 
district attorney or the attorney general may not file a suit under 
Subsection (a) to obtain a temporary or permanent court order or 
injunction, either prohibitory or mandatory, to remove a house from 
a public beach if:
		(1)  the line of vegetation establishing the boundary 
of the public beach has moved as a result of a meteorological event;
		(2)  the house was located landward of the natural line 
of vegetation before the meteorological event;
		(3)  a portion of the house continues to be located 
landward of the line of vegetation; and
		(4)  the house is located on a peninsula in a county 
with a population of more than 250,000 and less than 251,000 that 
borders the Gulf of Mexico.
	(a-2)  The owner of a house described by Subsection (a-1) may 
repair or rebuild the house following a meteorological event that 
causes the destruction of or damage to the house.
	SECTION ____.  Section 61.018, Natural Resources Code, as 
amended by this Act, applies to a meteorological event regardless 
of whether the event occurred before, on, or after the effective 
date of this Act.