Bill Text: TX SB1656 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the preservation of Fairfield Lake State Park; granting the power of eminent domain.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs [SB1656 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1656-Introduced.html
By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1656 | |
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relating to the preservation of Fairfield Lake State Park; granting | ||
the power of eminent domain. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Q, Chapter 22, Parks and Wildlife | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 22.230 to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER Q: FAIRFIELD LAKE STATE PARK | ||
Sec. 22.230. PRESERVATION OF FAIRFIELD LAKE STATE | ||
PARK. (a) The legislature finds that: | ||
(1) in the year of the centennial celebration of Texas | ||
State Parks, the state has a vested interested in preserving and | ||
protecting state parks operated by Parks and Wildlife Department; | ||
(2) the state of Texas and the Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department have invested over $70 million in the development and | ||
operation of Fairfield Lake State Park. | ||
(b) the department has the power of eminent domain to | ||
acquire in the manner provided by Chapter 21, Property Code, any | ||
property necessary to preserve Fairfield Lake State Park, and to | ||
carry out the purposes of this section, including the acquisition | ||
of approximately 1,821.353 acres and the adjoining acres associated | ||
with that property. | ||
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, 2023. |