1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance provided by or through certain development
 1-3     corporations created by certain political subdivisions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 23, Development Corporation Act of 1979
 1-6     (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any corporation
 1-9     created by a unit under this Act may, with the consent of the unit,
1-10     obtain health benefits coverage, liability coverage, workers'
1-11     compensation coverage, and property coverage under the unit's
1-12     insurance policies, self-funded coverage, or coverage provided
1-13     under an Interlocal Agreement with other political subdivisions.
1-14     Health benefits coverage may be extended to the corporation's
1-15     directors and employees, and the dependents of such directors and
1-16     employees.  Workers' compensation benefits may be extended to the
1-17     corporation's directors, employees, and volunteers.  The liability
1-18     coverage may be extended to protect the corporation and its
1-19     directors and employees.
1-20           (d)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any corporation
1-21     created by a unit under this Act may, with the consent of the unit,
1-22     obtain retirement benefits under any retirement program operated or
1-23     participated in by the unit. Retirement benefits may be extended to
1-24     the corporation's employees.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2434 was passed by the House on April
         16, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 2434 on May 26, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 2434 on May 30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2434 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         2434 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor