1-1     By:  Junell, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)      H.B. No. 979

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 12, 1997;

 1-3     March 17, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the duration of certain agreements between a local

 1-9     government and this state or the United States in connection with

1-10     an airport or air navigation facility.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 22.021, Transportation Code, is amended

1-13     by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-14           (d)  The 40-year limit on the term of a contract, lease, or

1-15     other arrangement provided by Subsection (a) does not apply to a

1-16     contract, lease, or other arrangement under this section between a

1-17     local government and this state, the United States, or an agency or

1-18     instrumentality of this state or the United States.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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