By Junell, et al.                                      H.B. No. 979

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the duration of certain agreements between a local

 1-3     government and this state or the United States in connection with

 1-4     an airport or air navigation facility.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 22.021, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-7     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  The 40-year limit on the term of a contract, lease, or

 1-9     other arrangement provided by Subsection (a) does not apply to a

1-10     contract, lease, or other arrangement under this section between a

1-11     local government and this state, the United States, or an agency or

1-12     instrumentality of this state or the United States.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.