1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the administration of risk pools that provide health 1-3 and accident coverage for political subdivisions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 172.006(b), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (b) A pool may be administered by a staff employed by the 1-8 pool, an entity created by the political subdivision or group of 1-9 political subdivisions participating in the pool, a staff or entity 1-10 that administers another pool established under this chapter, or a 1-11 third party administrator. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2754 was passed by the House on May 13, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2754 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor