By Hodge H.B. No. 2920 75R9126 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to contracts with commissioners court in counties with 1-3 population of 1,200,000 or more. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 316.021, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Should the commissioners court enter into a reciprocal 1-8 contract with a responsible 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to 1-9 manage and operate a museum, building or site, admissions fees may 1-10 be charged, collected and used by such organization and not placed 1-11 in a county special fund, on the condition that at the time the 1-12 admission fees are charged and collected such organization shall 1-13 not be obligated in any way to the county in connection with 1-14 capital improvements to the museum, building or site. Expenditures 1-15 of admission fees by such a nonprofit organization shall in this 1-16 circumstance be with the concurrence of the commissioners court and 1-17 the governing board of the contracted organization, according to 1-18 the parties' contract. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.