By:  Turner, S.                                       H.B. No. 1898
       73R4350 RJA-D
                                 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.