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.