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 LCRA is a Texas governmental agency that has many duties coextensive with the limits of the state. Harris County is not. The governance of LCRA is a state public policy matter. The governance of Harris County is not.
+Stephenson: Under the above authorities we hold that the act in question is a general, and not a local or special law within the meaning of
+Sections 56 and 57 of Art. 3 of our State Constitution. The statute
+operates upon a subject matter in which the people at large are interested; it applies with equal force to all persons everywhere; and
+the fact that it only operates in certain localities grows out of the
+subject matter. To say that the Legislature cannot enact laws to
+protect the fish along a certain part of the coast line of the State
+because such a law would be local or special, would be to say that
+all such regulations must apply to every part of the State. A regulation protecting fish in the coastal waters which is made to apply
+to the entire State would be an idle and useless thing, as most of
+our counties have no coast line at all. Also the protection of fish
+and their spawning grounds along any part, or all of the coast line
+of the State is a matter of general public interest. For the reasons
+stated we hold this to be a general law