1-1     By:  Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)                H.B. No. 2754
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the administration of risk pools that provide health
1-10     and accident coverage for political subdivisions.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 172.006(b), Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           (b)  A pool may be administered by a staff employed by the
1-15     pool, an entity created by the political subdivision or group of
1-16     political subdivisions participating in the pool, a staff or entity
1-17     that administers another pool established under this chapter, or a
1-18     third party administrator.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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