By Junell H.B. No. 979 75R5248 DWS-D 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.