S.B. No. 904
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the eligibility of certain fire and police departments
    1-2  to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 852.005, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  For the purposes of this subtitle, a fire or police
    1-7  department has the standing of a municipality if:
    1-8              (1)  the department:
    1-9                    (A)  was created and is operating under an
   1-10  interlocal cooperation agreement that has existed at least 15 years
   1-11  and was executed by two or more municipalities located in a county
   1-12  with a population of at least two million;
   1-13                    (B)  is supervised by an administrative agency
   1-14  appointed by the contracting municipalities; and
   1-15                    (C)  provides common fire protection or law
   1-16  enforcement services to the contracting municipalities;
   1-17              (2)  the governing body of each municipality that is a
   1-18  party to the agreement has voted by ordinance or resolution to
   1-19  accept responsibility, in a manner to be determined by the
   1-20  participating municipalities, for all payments required of and
   1-21  obligations incurred by the department under this subtitle in the
   1-22  event that the interlocal cooperation agreement is dissolved or
   1-23  expires; and
   1-24              (3)  all ordinances adopted by the participating
    2-1  municipalities with regard to the participation are approved by the
    2-2  board of trustees.
    2-3        (d)  The governing board of the supervising administrative
    2-4  agency by order may take an action for a department described by
    2-5  Subsection (c) that is required or authorized by this subtitle to
    2-6  be made by municipal ordinance.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.