Bill Text: TX HB1861 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for interlocal contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on intent calendar [HB1861 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1861-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cortez (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) | H.B. No. 1861 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2021; | ||
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Local | ||
Government; May 22, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 22, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the requirements for interlocal contracts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 791.011(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) An interlocal contract must: | ||
(1) be authorized by the governing body of each party | ||
to the contract unless a party to the contract is a water utility | ||
owned by a municipality containing more than 75 percent of the | ||
population of a county with a population of 1.5 million or more or a | ||
municipally owned electric utility, in which event the governing | ||
body may establish procedures for entering into interlocal | ||
contracts that do not exceed $100,000 without requiring the | ||
approval of the governing body; | ||
(2) state the purpose, terms, rights, and duties of | ||
the contracting parties; and | ||
(3) specify that each party paying for the performance | ||
of governmental functions or services must make those payments from | ||
current revenues available to the paying party. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an interlocal contract entered into on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. An interlocal contract entered into before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the contract was entered into, and the former law is continued | ||
in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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