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.