By:  Gutierrez                                        H.B. No. 1620
       73R3791 CAG-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the validation of governmental acts and proceedings by
    1-3  a municipality in connection with the financing of the repair,
    1-4  improvement, or replacement of an international toll bridge.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 4, Title 28, Revised Statutes, is amended
    1-7  by adding Article 1015g-7 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 1015g-7
    1-9        Sec. 1.  APPLICATION.  This article applies only to an
   1-10  incorporated municipality operating under the general law or a
   1-11  home-rule charter that authorizes, issues, or sells a revenue time
   1-12  warrant or bond payable only from a source other than taxation and
   1-13  that does not constitute a tax obligation.
   1-14        Sec. 2.  PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED.  (a)  The governmental acts
   1-15  and proceedings of a municipality authorizing the issuance and sale
   1-16  of revenue time warrants or bonds under Articles 1111-1118, Revised
   1-17  Statutes, or Chapter 258, Acts of the 49th Legislature, 1945
   1-18  (Article 1015g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and their
   1-19  subsequent amendments, to finance or undertake to finance the cost
   1-20  of repairing, improving, or replacing an international toll bridge
   1-21  owned by the municipality, including the adoption of an order,
   1-22  resolution, or ordinance, are validated as of the date of the
   1-23  authorization, issuance, or sale of the revenue time warrant or
   1-24  bond.
    2-1        (b)  The governmental acts or proceedings of a municipality
    2-2  occurring after the authorization, issuance, or sale of a revenue
    2-3  time warrant or bond may not be held invalid on the ground that the
    2-4  authorization, issuance, or sale, in the absence of this article,
    2-5  is invalid.
    2-6        Sec. 3.  EFFECT ON LITIGATION.  This article does not apply
    2-7  to any matter that on the effective date of this article:
    2-8              (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
    2-9  ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
   2-10  judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction;
   2-11              (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
   2-12  court of competent jurisdiction; or
   2-13              (3)  involves the issue of title to real property.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.