By: Henderson S.B. No. 88 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the validation of government acts and proceedings 1-2 regarding certain bond elections in municipalities with a 1-3 population of more than 1.5 million. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. APPLICATION. This Act applies to any 1-6 municipality having a population of 1.5 million or more. 1-7 SECTION 2. PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED. The governmental acts and 1-8 proceedings of a municipality relating to a bond election that was 1-9 held before December 1, 1991, and at which the ballot proposition 1-10 was approved by more than 60 percent of the voters voting on the 1-11 proposition are validated as of the dates they occurred. The 1-12 validation includes the preparation and wording of the ballot 1-13 proposition, any action taken by the municipality in calling and 1-14 holding the bond election, and any other action taken by the 1-15 municipality before the effective date of this Act in connection 1-16 with the issuance of any bonds approved in the bond election. The 1-17 acts and proceedings may not be held invalid because they were not 1-18 performed in accordance with law. A municipality may take any 1-19 further action or may conduct any further proceeding necessary to 1-20 complete the issuance of the bonds approved at the bond election, 1-21 and, when issued, the bonds are valid and binding obligations of 1-22 the municipality in accordance with the terms of the bonds. 1-23 SECTION 3. EFFECT ON LITIGATION. This Act does not apply to 2-1 any matter that on the effective date of this Act has been held 2-2 invalid by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. 2-3 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-4 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.