1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the law applicable to interlocal contracts made by
1-3 local governments.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 791.012, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 791.012. [LOCAL] LAW APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTING PARTIES.
1-8 Local governments that are parties to an interlocal contract for
1-9 the performance of a service may, in performing the service, apply
1-10 the [local] law applicable to [of] a party as agreed by the
1-11 parties.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 501 was passed by the House on April
3, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 501 was passed by the Senate on May
8, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor