By George                                              H.B. No. 614
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, donations, bequests,
 1-3     and devises by a county.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 81.032 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 81.032.  ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS.  The
 1-8     commissioners court may accept a gift, grant, donation, bequest, or
 1-9     devise of money or other property on behalf of the county for the
1-10     purpose of performing a function conferred by law on the county or
1-11     a county officer.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.