1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)                 H.B. No. 2434
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably, as
 1-5     amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent
 1-6     to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                             By:  Moncrief
 1-8           Amend H.B. No. 2434 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  In SECTION 1, in the recital (house engrossment, page 1,
1-10     line 28), strike "Subsection (c)" and substitute "Subsections (c)
1-11     and (d)".
1-12           (2)  In SECTION 1, following added Subsection (c), Section
1-13     23, Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's
1-14     Texas Civil Statutes) (house engrossment, page 1, between lines 40
1-15     and 41), insert new Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-16           (d)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any corporation
1-17     created by a unit under this Act may, with the consent of the unit,
1-18     obtain retirement benefits under any retirement program operated or
1-19     participated in by the unit.  Retirement benefits may be extended
1-20     to the corporation's directors and employees.
1-21                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22                                   AN ACT
1-23     relating to insurance provided by or through certain development
1-24     corporations created by certain political subdivisions.
1-25           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26           SECTION 1.  Section 23, Development Corporation Act of 1979
1-27     (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-28     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-29           (c)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any corporation
1-30     created by a unit under this act may, with the consent of the unit,
1-31     obtain health benefits coverage, liability coverage, workers'
1-32     compensation coverage, and property coverage under the unit's
1-33     insurance policies, self-funded coverage, or coverage provided
1-34     under an Interlocal Agreement with other political subdivisions.
1-35     Health benefits coverage may be extended to the corporation's
1-36     directors and employees, and the dependents of such directors and
1-37     employees.  Workers' compensation benefits may be extended to the
1-38     corporation's directors, employees, and volunteers.  The liability
1-39     coverage may be extended to protect the corporation and its
1-40     directors and employees.
1-41           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.
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