By Kamel H.B. No. 159 74R240 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county improvement, maintenance, or repair of private 1-3 roads used by school district vehicles. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2, County Road and Bridge 1-6 Act (Article 6702-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Section 2.013 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 2.013. COUNTY COOPERATION WITH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ON 1-9 PRIVATE ROAD REPAIR. (a) The commissioners court of a county, in 1-10 a declared emergency, may improve, maintain, or repair in an 1-11 unincorporated area of the county a private road used by a school 1-12 district to transport students to and from school in district 1-13 vehicles. 1-14 (b) A declared emergency exists if the commissioners court 1-15 of a county and the board of trustees of a school district adopt 1-16 resolutions declaring that a failure to improve, maintain, or 1-17 repair a private road is likely to cause an injury to a school 1-18 district student or employee or damage to school district property 1-19 during the transportation of students to and from the school in 1-20 district vehicles. 1-21 (c) Before the commencement of the improvement, maintenance, 1-22 or repair of a private road, the commissioners court of a county 1-23 and the board of trustees must make a contract regarding the work 1-24 to be performed and a reasonable charge for the work. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.