By Counts                                             H.B. No. 2614
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to creation of a county alliance to jointly authorize the
 1-3     creation of a development corporation.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article
 1-6     5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section
 1-7     4D to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 4D.  COUNTY ALLIANCE.  (a)  Two or more counties that
 1-9     are adjacent or have a commonality of interest, as determined by
1-10     the governing bodies of the counties involved, may create a county
1-11     alliance to authorize the creation of a corporation.  The county
1-12     alliance is a single unit for the purposes of this Act.  The other
1-13     provisions of this Act apply to the county alliance and a
1-14     corporation authorized by the county alliance, except to the extent
1-15     inconsistent with this section.
1-16           (b)  A county may become a member of a county alliance that
1-17     has authorized the creation of a corporation.  A county may leave a
1-18     county alliance if all of the county's obligations and entitlements
1-19     in relation to the county alliance have been properly settled.
1-20           (c)  The board of directors of a corporation authorized by a
1-21     county alliance consists of three members from each county
1-22     appointed by the governing body of each county in the alliance.  A
1-23     member of the board of directors may not serve more than six years
1-24     and may be removed at the will of the appointing county.  The
 2-1     member serves without compensation but is entitled to reimbursement
 2-2     for expenses incurred in the performance of the member's duties.
 2-3           (d)  On dissolution of a corporation authorized by a county
 2-4     alliance, any remaining assets of the corporation shall be
 2-5     distributed among the counties in the county alliance on a per
 2-6     capita basis.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.