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.