74R8696 DRH-F
          By Cuellar of Webb                                    H.B. No. 1751
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1751:
          By Moreno                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1751
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the conveyance of a Texas Turnpike Authority project.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 12c, Chapter
    1-5  410, Acts of the 53rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article
    1-6  6674v, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  This section applies only to:
    1-9              (1)  a county, or a local government corporation
   1-10  serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike
   1-11  authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million<,
   1-12  according to the most recent federal decennial census,> as to which
   1-13  the Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and the
   1-14  governor approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in the
   1-15  best interests of the state and the county; and
   1-16              (2)  a municipality with a population of more than
   1-17  120,000 that is adjacent to the United Mexican States if the
   1-18  Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and the governor
   1-19  approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in the best
   1-20  interests of the state and the municipality.
   1-21        (b)  The Authority may lease, sell, or otherwise convey a
   1-22  Turnpike Project to a county, <or a> local government corporation
   1-23  created under the Texas Transportation Corporation Act (Article
    2-1  1528l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or municipality. A county,
    2-2  <or a> local government corporation, or municipality may lease,
    2-3  buy, or otherwise receive a Turnpike Project.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  Section 12d, Chapter 410, Acts of the 53rd
    2-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 6674v, Vernon's Texas
    2-6  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    2-7        Sec. 12d.  SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO AUTHORITY.  The following are
    2-8  considered successor agencies to the Texas Turnpike Authority for
    2-9  purposes of Article III, Section 52-b, of the Texas Constitution:
   2-10              (1)  a county, <or> local government corporation, or
   2-11  municipality that leases, buys, or receives a Turnpike Project
   2-12  under Section 12c of this Act; and
   2-13              (2)  a county, <or> a local government corporation
   2-14  serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike
   2-15  authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million<,
   2-16  according to the most recent federal decennial census,> that
   2-17  constructs a toll road, toll bridge, or Turnpike Project.
   2-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.