1-1     By:  Wohlgemuth (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)              H.B. No. 508
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with
 1-5     favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays
 1-6     0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 508                    By:  Ellis
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to interlocal contracts for the construction, improvement,
1-11     or repair of streets and alleys in municipalities.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 791, Government Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 791.032 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 791.032.  CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, AND REPAIR OF
1-16     STREETS IN MUNICIPALITIES.  With the approval of the governing body
1-17     of a municipality,  a local government may enter into an interlocal
1-18     contract with the municipality to finance the construction,
1-19     improvement, maintenance, or repair of streets or alleys in the
1-20     municipality, including portions of the municipality's streets or
1-21     alleys that are not an integral part of or a connecting link to
1-22     other roads or highways.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 251.012(a), Transportation Code, is
1-24     amended to read as follows:
1-25           (a)  With the approval of the governing body of a
1-26     municipality, the commissioners court of a county may spend county
1-27     money to finance the construction, improvement, maintenance, or
1-28     repair of a street or alley in the county that is located in the
1-29     municipality, including the provision of:
1-30                 (1)  necessary roadbed preparation or material;
1-31                 (2)  paving or other hard covering of the street or
1-32     alley; [or]
1-33                 (3)  curbs, gutters, bridges, or drainage facilities;
1-34     or
1-35                 (4)  any construction, improvement, maintenance, or
1-36     repair allowed under Section 791.032, Government Code, if the
1-37     commissioners court finds that the county will receive  benefits as
1-38     a result of the work on the street or alley.
1-39           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-40           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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