By Henderson                                           S.B. No. 904
       74R7154 GCH-F
                                 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 Subsection (c) 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 the department was
    1-9  created and is operating under an interlocal cooperation agreement
   1-10  between two or more municipalities located in a county with a
   1-11  population of at least two million, is supervised by an
   1-12  administrative agency appointed by the contracting municipalities,
   1-13  and provides common fire protection or law enforcement services to
   1-14  the contracting municipalities.  The governing board of the
   1-15  supervising administrative agency by order may take an action for a
   1-16  department described by this subsection that is required or
   1-17  authorized by this subtitle to be made by municipal ordinance.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.