By Nelson                                             S.B. No. 1432
       74R8289 SRC-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of certificates of obligation for
    1-3  constructing, improving, or maintaining public roads.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 271.046(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Certificates may be issued for the payment of
    1-8  contractual obligations to be incurred in:
    1-9              (1)  constructing or equipping a jail;
   1-10              (2)  constructing, renovating, or otherwise improving a
   1-11  county-owned building; <or>
   1-12              (3)  constructing a bridge that is part of or connected
   1-13  to a county road or an approach to such a bridge; or
   1-14              (4)  constructing, improving, or maintaining the public
   1-15  roads in a county.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.