S.B. No. 927
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the conveyance of a Texas Turnpike Authority project.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 12c, Chapter
1-4 410, Acts of the 53rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article
1-5 6674v, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (a) This section applies only to:
1-8 (1) a county, or a local government corporation
1-9 serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike
1-10 authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million<,
1-11 according to the most recent federal decennial census,> as to which
1-12 the Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and the
1-13 governor approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in the
1-14 best interests of the state and the county; and
1-15 (2) a municipality with a population of more than
1-16 120,000 that is adjacent to the United Mexican States if the
1-17 Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and the governor
1-18 approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in the best
1-19 interests of the state and the municipality.
1-20 (b) The Authority may lease, sell, or otherwise convey a
1-21 Turnpike Project to a county, <or a> local government corporation
1-22 created under the Texas Transportation Corporation Act (Article
1-23 1528l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or municipality. A county,
2-1 <or a> local government corporation, or municipality may lease,
2-2 buy, or otherwise receive a Turnpike Project.
2-3 SECTION 2. Section 12d, Chapter 410, Acts of the 53rd
2-4 Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 6674v, Vernon's Texas
2-5 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-6 Sec. 12d. SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO AUTHORITY. The following are
2-7 considered successor agencies to the Texas Turnpike Authority for
2-8 purposes of Article III, Section 52-b, of the Texas Constitution:
2-9 (1) a county, <or> local government corporation, or
2-10 municipality that leases, buys, or receives a Turnpike Project
2-11 under Section 12c of this Act; and
2-12 (2) a county, <or> a local government corporation
2-13 serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike
2-14 authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million<,
2-15 according to the most recent federal decennial census,> that
2-16 constructs a toll road, toll bridge, or Turnpike Project.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.