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By Kuempel, Hilderbran H.B. No. 1836
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to county purchase of road construction material.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 262.027, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The officer in charge of opening the bids shall present
1-8 them to the commissioners court in session. Except as provided by
1-9 Subsection (e), the <The> court shall:
1-10 (1) award the contract to the responsible bidder who
1-11 submits the lowest and best bid; or
1-12 (2) reject all bids and publish a new notice.
1-13 (e) In determining the lowest and best bid for a contract
1-14 for the purchase of road construction material, the commissioners
1-15 court may consider the pickup and delivery locations of the bidders
1-16 and the cost to the county of delivering or hauling the material to
1-17 be purchased. The commissioners court may award contracts for the
1-18 purchase of road construction material to more than one bidder if
1-19 each of the selected bidders submits the lowest and best bid for a
1-20 particular location or type of material.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.