By:  West, Royce                                       S.B. No. 226
       73R1669 MRB-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the conditions under which certain municipalities are
    1-3  required to solicit competitive bids or proposals.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 252.021(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Before a municipality with 50,000 or more inhabitants
    1-8  may enter into a contract that requires an expenditure of more than
    1-9  $25,000 <$10,000> from one or more municipal funds, the
   1-10  municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
   1-11  chapter for competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed
   1-12  proposals.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
   1-14  252.021(a), Local Government Code, relating to the contractual
   1-15  amount that requires a municipality to solicit competitive bids or
   1-16  proposals, applies only to a contract for which the notice
   1-17  soliciting bids or proposals is first published or posted on or
   1-18  after September 1, 1993.  A contract for which the notice is first
   1-19  published or posted before September 1, 1993, is subject to the law
   1-20  as it existed at the time the notice was first published or posted,
   1-21  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.