1-1     By:  George (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                  H.B. No. 614
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, donations, bequests,
1-10     and devises by a county.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,
1-13     is amended by adding Section 81.032 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 81.032.  ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS.  The
1-15     commissioners court may accept a gift, grant, donation, bequest, or
1-16     devise of money or other property on behalf of the county for the
1-17     purpose of performing a function conferred by law on the county or
1-18     a county officer.
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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