By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1510
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certificates of obligations for public roads.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 271.046(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  Certificates may be issued for the payment of
    1-6  contractual obligations to be incurred in:
    1-7              (1)  constructing or equipping a jail;
    1-8              (2)  constructing, renovating or otherwise improving a
    1-9  county-owned building; <or>
   1-10              (3)  constructing a bridge that is part of or connected
   1-11  to a county road or an approach to such a bridge; or
   1-12              (4)  constructing, improving or maintaining the public
   1-13  roads in a county.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.