1-1     By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1257
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 16, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, with
 1-5     favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays
 1-6     0; April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Nixon
 1-8     Amend S.B. No. 1257 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  On page 1, line 18, strike "20,000" and substitute
1-10     "5,000".
1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12                                   AN ACT
1-13     relating to developer participation contracts.
1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-15           SECTION 1.  Section 212.071, Local Government Code, is
1-16     amended to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 212.071.  DEVELOPER PARTICIPATION CONTRACT.  Without
1-18     complying with the competitive sealed bidding procedure of Chapter
1-19     252, a municipality with 20,000 [50,000] or more inhabitants may
1-20     make a contract with a developer of a subdivision or land in the
1-21     municipality to construct public improvements, not including a
1-22     building, related to the development.  If the contract does not
1-23     meet the requirements of this subchapter, Chapter 252 applies to
1-24     the contract if the contract would otherwise be governed by that
1-25     chapter.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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