H.B. No. 1422
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the restoration of expired eminent domain authority of
  certain rural rail transportation districts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 172, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 172.1571 to read as follows:
         Sec. 172.1571.  RESTORATION OF CERTAIN EXPIRED EMINENT
  DOMAIN AUTHORITY. (a) This section applies only to a district:
               (1)  whose authority to exercise the power of eminent
  domain under Section 172.157 expired under Section 2206.101(c),
  Government Code; and
               (2)  that is located in a county adjacent to a county in
  which there is located a port authority that has the authority to
  issue a permit for the movement of oversize or overweight vehicles
  under Subchapter O or P, Chapter 623.
         (b)  Notwithstanding the expiration of the district's
  authority as described by Subsection (a), the district, on and
  after September 1, 2015, may exercise the power of eminent domain in
  accordance with Section 172.157.
         SECTION 2.  As provided by Section 17(c), Article I, Texas
  Constitution, this Act takes effect only on a two-thirds vote of all
  the members elected to each house. If this Act receives the vote
  necessary to take effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1422 was passed by the House on April
  30, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 128, Nays 11, 1 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1422 was passed by the Senate on May
  19, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 21, Nays 10.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor