By Gray H.B. No. 3185
76R7772 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assistance a county may provide another
1-3 governmental entity for a construction project.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 251.015, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 251.015. ASSISTING OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. The
1-8 commissioners court of a county may use county road equipment,
1-9 construction equipment, including trucks, and employees necessary
1-10 to operate the equipment to assist another governmental entity on a
1-11 project if:
1-12 (1) the cost does not exceed $15,000 [$3,000];
1-13 (2) the use of the equipment or employees does not
1-14 interfere with the county's work schedule; and
1-15 (3) the county pays only the costs that the county
1-16 would pay if the county did not assist the governmental entity.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.