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.Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 33.232
Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1993, ch. 785, Sec. 2, eff. 6/13/1979.