By Truitt                                             H.B. No. 3619
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to developer participation contracts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 212.071, Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 212.071.  DEVELOPER PARTICIPATION CONTRACT.  Without
 1-7     complying with the competitive sealed bidding procedure of Chapter
 1-8     252, a municipality with 20,000 [50,000] or more inhabitants may
 1-9     make a contract with a developer of a subdivision or land in the
1-10     municipality to construct public improvements, not including a
1-11     building, related to the development.  If the contract does not
1-12     meet the requirements of this subchapter, Chapter 252 applies to
1-13     the contract if the contract would otherwise be governed by that
1-14     chapter.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.