1-1     By:  Gray (Senate Sponsor - Jackson)                  H.B. No. 3185
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the assistance a county may provide another
1-10     governmental entity for a construction project.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 251.015, Transportation Code, is amended
1-13     to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 251.015.  ASSISTING OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY.  The
1-15     commissioners court of a county may use county road equipment,
1-16     construction equipment, including trucks, and employees necessary
1-17     to operate the equipment to assist another governmental entity on a
1-18     project if:
1-19                 (1)  the cost does not exceed $15,000 [$3,000];
1-20                 (2)  the use of the equipment or employees does not
1-21     interfere with the county's work schedule; and
1-22                 (3)  the county pays only the costs that the county
1-23     would pay if the county did not assist the governmental entity.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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