Bill Text: TX SB345 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 345 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the use of land in the William Goodrich Jones State Forest.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB345 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB345-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 345




	AN ACT
	relating to the use of land in the William Goodrich Jones State
	Forest.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 88, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 88.1085 to read as follows:
	Sec. 88.1085. USE OF LAND IN WILLIAM GOODRICH JONES STATE
	FOREST. (a) For the purpose of this section, the "Jones State
	Forest" means the real property owned by the state for the use and
	benefit of The Texas A&M University System to demonstrate
	reforestation work and forest management work under the Texas A&M
	Forest Service, consisting of approximately 1,722 acres in
	Montgomery County, and formally dedicated and named the William
	Goodrich Jones State Forest.
	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the entire
	territory of the Jones State Forest must remain natural, scenic,
	undeveloped, and open in a manner that maintains the tree canopy
	cover of the forest. No statute, rule, policy, or ordinance may be
	enforced with respect to the territory of the Jones State Forest,
	other than a statute, rule, policy, or ordinance that protects and
	conserves the natural resources, air quality, or water quality of
	the Jones State Forest.
	(c) This section does not preclude the Texas Department of
	Transportation, for the current operation or future expansion of
	Farm-to-Market Road 1488, from:
	(1) using an easement that is owned by the state for
	the benefit of the department for a highway purpose; or
	(2) acquiring an additional interest in real property.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 345 passed the Senate on
	March 27, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 24, 2019, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 345 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 118,
	Nays 26, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor