By Oliveira                                           H.B. No. 1484
       74R4734 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authority of an electric cooperative corporation to
    1-3  form and participate in a joint powers agency with a public entity.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 166, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
    1-6  Regular Session, 1973 (Article 1435a, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-7  Statutes), is amended by adding Section 4c to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 4c.  An electric cooperative corporation may form a
    1-9  joint powers agency with one or more public entities and
   1-10  participate in an existing joint powers agency in which at least
   1-11  one public entity is a member and participant, as if the electric
   1-12  cooperative corporation were a public entity.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.