1-1  By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 904
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1995; March 6, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the eligibility of certain fire and police departments
    1-9  to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 852.005, Government Code, is amended by
   1-12  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  For the purposes of this subtitle, a fire or police
   1-14  department has the standing of a municipality if the department was
   1-15  created and is operating under an interlocal cooperation agreement
   1-16  between two or more municipalities located in a county with a
   1-17  population of at least two million, is supervised by an
   1-18  administrative agency appointed by the contracting municipalities,
   1-19  and provides common fire protection or law enforcement services to
   1-20  the contracting municipalities.  The governing board of the
   1-21  supervising administrative agency by order may take an action for a
   1-22  department described by this subsection that is required or
   1-23  authorized by this subtitle to be made by municipal ordinance.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-29  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-30  passage, and it is so enacted.
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