S.B. No. 22
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to performance bonds required of county contractors.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 262.032, Local Government
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (b)  Within 30 <10> days after the date of the signing of a
    1-6  contract or issuance of a purchase order following the acceptance
    1-7  of a bid or proposal and prior to commencement of the actual work,
    1-8  the bidder or proposal offeror shall furnish a performance bond to
    1-9  the county, if required  by the county, for the full amount of the
   1-10  contract if that contract exceeds $50,000.  This subsection does
   1-11  not apply to a performance bond required to be furnished by Article
   1-12  5160, Revised Statutes.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.