1-1 By: Woolley (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 501
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;
1-3 April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the law applicable to interlocal contracts made by
1-9 local governments.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 791.012, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 791.012. [LOCAL] LAW APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTING PARTIES.
1-14 Local governments that are parties to an interlocal contract for
1-15 the performance of a service may, in performing the service, apply
1-16 the [local] law applicable to [of] a party as agreed by the
1-17 parties.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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