Tex. Natural Resources Code § 33.232: POLICY.

It is the declared policy of the state:

(1) to protect the property rights of those who sell interests in land to the state by fairly compensating the sellers;

(2) to protect that coastal wetland which is most essential to the public interest by acquiring fee and lesser interests in the coastal wetland and managing it in a manner that will preserve and protect the productivity and integrity of the land as coastal wetland; and

(3) to assure that the state does not expend funds to acquire any coastal wetland to which it already holds a valid title at the time of the expenditure.

Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1993, ch. 785, Sec. 2, eff. June 13, 1979.