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. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 614 was passed by the House on March 25, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 614 was passed by the Senate on May 10, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor