By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 927 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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 to a county, or a local government 1-8 corporation serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint 1-9 turnpike authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 1-10 million, according to the most recent federal decennial census, or 1-11 a municipality in a county whose population is more than 100,000 1-12 and less than 200,000 and which borders the Republic of Mexico as 1-13 to which the Authority, the Texas Transportation Commission, and 1-14 the governor approve the transfer of a Turnpike Project as being in 1-15 the best interests of: (1) the state; and (2) the county or, if 1-16 the project is conveyed to a municipality, that municipality. 1-17 (b) The Authority may lease, sell, or otherwise convey a 1-18 Turnpike Project to a county, municipality, or a local government 1-19 corporation created under the Texas Transportation Corporation Act 1-20 (Article 1528l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). A county, 1-21 municipality, or a local government corporation may lease, buy, or 1-22 otherwise receive a Turnpike Project. 1-23 SECTION 2. Section 12d, Chapter 410, Acts of the 53rd 2-1 Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 6674v, Vernon's Texas 2-2 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 2-3 Sec. 12d. The following are considered successor agencies to 2-4 the Texas Turnpike Authority for purposes of Article III, Section 2-5 52-b, of the Texas Constitution: 2-6 (1) a county, municipality, or local government 2-7 corporation that leases, buys, or receives a Turnpike Project under 2-8 Section 12c of this Act; and 2-9 (2) a county, or a local government corporation 2-10 serving a county, or an adjacent county in a joint turnpike 2-11 authority with a county whose population is more than 1.5 million, 2-12 according to the most recent federal decennial census, that 2-13 constructs a toll road, toll bridge, or Turnpike Project. 2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.