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  By: Biedermann H.B. No. 2866
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the preservation, maintenance, and restoration of the
  Alamo Cenotaph; granting the power of eminent domain.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
  Code, is amended by adding Section 31.4515 to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.4515.  PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, AND RESTORATION
  OF ALAMO CENOTAPH. (a) The land office has the power of eminent
  domain to acquire in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property
  Code, any property necessary to preserve, maintain, and restore the
  Alamo Cenotaph and to carry out the purposes of this section,
  including the acquisition of the cenotaph and the land immediately
  underneath and adjacent to the cenotaph.
         (b)  Subject to Subsection (d), the land office is
  responsible for the preservation, maintenance, and restoration of
  the Alamo Cenotaph and has jurisdiction over the land immediately
  underneath and adjacent to the cenotaph. The land office shall
  determine and officially designate a reasonable amount of land as
  the land immediately underneath and adjacent to the cenotaph for
  purposes of this section.
         (c)  Any power or duty related to the Alamo Cenotaph formerly
  vested in another state agency or local governmental entity,
  including the City of San Antonio, is vested solely in the land
  office in accordance with this section.
         (d)  All major projects related to the preservation,
  maintenance, and restoration of the Alamo Cenotaph, including any
  project that requires movement of the cenotaph from its original
  location, must be approved:
               (1)  unanimously by the governor, lieutenant governor,
  and speaker of the house of representatives; and
               (2)  by a majority of the members of the Texas
  Historical Commission.
         (e)  The cenotaph may not be moved to a location outside of
  the area that constituted the original Alamo Plaza.
         (f)  A local governmental entity may not exercise any control
  over the Alamo Cenotaph and the land immediately underneath and
  adjacent to the cenotaph or move the cenotaph from its original
  location in the Alamo Plaza.
         (g)  A writ of mandamus and any other legal and equitable
  remedy is available to a party in interest to require the land
  office, a local governmental entity, and any other party to comply
  with this section.
         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, 2021.