AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the ability of a navigation district to contract with
 1-2     other parties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 60, Water Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Section 60.003 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 60.003.  AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR THE OPERATION OR
 1-7     DEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRICT.  A district may contract with any
 1-8     person, foreign or domestic, necessary or convenient to the
 1-9     operation or development of the district's ports and waterways.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 201 passed the Senate on
         March 2, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 201 passed the House on
         May 19, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor