73R4350 RJA-D By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1898 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the printing of corrections to the published general 1-3 and special laws. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.25(b), State Purchasing and General 1-6 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (b) There shall also be placed in the contract a stipulation 1-9 requiring the printer to have the proof read and corrected before 1-10 submitting such proof to the state and a stipulation requiring the 1-11 printer to set out in the first volume of the general and special 1-12 laws passed by each legislature, immediately preceding those 1-13 general and special laws, a special section containing corrections 1-14 of any errors or omissions made in the publication of the general 1-15 and special laws of preceding legislatures. The stipulation may 1-16 not require the printer to set out errors and omissions in laws 1-17 passed in a legislative session that ended more than five years 1-18 before the date of the call for bids for the contract. The 1-19 secretary of state shall provide the printer with the list of 1-20 errors and omissions, if any, and the appropriate corrections on or 1-21 before the date provided by Subsection (c) of this section for the 1-22 secretary of state to furnish the printer a copy of the laws and 1-23 resolutions passed at the first session of each legislature. The 1-24 comptroller shall not issue a warrant to the printer in payment for 2-1 the printing of such laws and resolutions unless and until the 2-2 printer, if an individual, or if a corporation, partnership, or 2-3 association, the vice-president, secretary, or manager of same has 2-4 made a sworn affidavit that he has complied with this section. 2-5 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not apply 2-6 to a contract for the publication of the laws of this state 2-7 executed before the effective date of this Act. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.