By Henderson                                           S.B. No. 904
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 904:
          By Averitt                                         C.S.S.B. No. 904
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the eligibility of certain fire and police departments
    1-3  to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 852.005, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  For the purposes of this subtitle, a fire or police
    1-8  department has the standing of a municipality if:
    1-9              (1)  the department:
   1-10                    (A)  was created and is operating under an
   1-11  interlocal cooperation agreement that has existed at least 15 years
   1-12  and was executed by two or more municipalities located in a county
   1-13  with a population of at least two million;
   1-14                    (B)  is supervised by an administrative agency
   1-15  appointed by the contracting municipalities; and
   1-16                    (C)  provides common fire protection or law
   1-17  enforcement services to the contracting municipalities; and
   1-18              (2)  the governing body of each municipality that is a
   1-19  party to the agreement has voted by ordinance or resolution to
   1-20  accept responsibility, in a manner to be determined by the
   1-21  participating municipalities, for all payments required of and
   1-22  obligations incurred by the department under this subtitle in the
   1-23  event that the interlocal cooperation agreement is dissolved or
   1-24  expires, all ordinances adopted by the participating municipalities
    2-1  with regard to such participation are approved by the Board of
    2-2  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.