By Cuellar of Webb 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 to a county, or a local government 1-9 corporation serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint 1-10 turnpike authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 1-11 million, according to the most recent federal decennial census, or 1-12 a municipality in a county whose population is more than 100,000 1-13 and less than 200,000 and which borders the Republic of Mexico as 1-14 to which the Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and 1-15 the governor approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in 1-16 the best interests of: (1) the state; and (2) the county or, if 1-17 the project is conveyed to a municipality, that municipality. 1-18 (b) The Authority may lease, sell, or otherwise convey a 1-19 Turnpike Project to a county, municipality, or a local government 1-20 corporation created under the Texas Transportation Corporation Act 1-21 (Article 1528l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). A county, 1-22 municipality, or a local government corporation may lease, buy, or 1-23 otherwise receive a Turnpike Project. 2-1 SECTION 2. Section 12d, Chapter 410, Acts of the 53rd 2-2 Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 6674v, Vernon's Texas 2-3 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 2-4 Sec. 12d. The following are considered successor agencies to 2-5 the Texas Turnpike Authority for purposes of Article III, Section 2-6 52-b, of the Texas Constitution: 2-7 (1) a county, municipality, or local government 2-8 corporation that leases, buys, or receives a Turnpike Project under 2-9 Section 12c of this Act; and 2-10 (2) a county, or a local government corporation 2-11 serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike 2-12 authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million, 2-13 according to the most recent federal decennial census, that 2-14 constructs a toll road, toll bridge, or Turnpike Project. 2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.