Bill Text: TX SB1918 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of emergency services districts in low populous counties to contract with banks regarding deposits.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB1918 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1918-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1918 | |
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| relating to the authority of emergency services districts in low | ||
| populous counties to contract with banks regarding deposits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 775, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 775.045 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 775.045. DEPOSITORY CONTRACTS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. | ||
| (a) This section applies only to a district located wholly in a | ||
| county with a population of less than 12,000. | ||
| (b) A district may contract with a bank for the deposit of | ||
| the district's funds in the same manner as a commissioners court of | ||
| a county may contract under Chapter 116, Local Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
