By Truan                                               S.B. No. 201
         76R2054 WP-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the ability of a navigation district to contract with
 1-3     other parties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 60, Water Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 60.003 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 60.003.  AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR THE OPERATION OR
 1-8     DEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRICT.  A district may contract with any
 1-9     person, foreign or domestic, necessary or convenient to the
1-10     operation or development of the district's ports and waterways.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.