By De La Garza, Bailey                                H.B. No. 1469
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the treatment for tax purposes of property held and
    1-3  used for public purposes pursuant to an interlocal contract between
    1-4  political subdivisions.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 791.013, Government Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 791.013.  CONTRACT SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION
    1-9        (a)  The parties to an interlocal contract may create an
   1-10  administrative agency or designate an existing local government to
   1-11  supervise the performance of the contract.
   1-12        (b)  The agency or designated local government may employ
   1-13  personnel, perform administrative activities, and provide
   1-14  administrative services necessary to perform the interlocal
   1-15  contract.
   1-16        (c)  All property that is held and used for public purposes
   1-17  by the administrative agency or designated local government shall
   1-18  be exempt from or subject to taxation in the same manner as if the
   1-19  property was held and used by the participating political
   1-20  subdivisions.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.