By: Shapiro S.B. No. 461 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the construction of public works. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 19, The Texas Engineering 1-4 Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) It is unlawful for this State or for any of its 1-7 political subdivisions, including any county, city, or town, to 1-8 engage in the construction of any public work involving 1-9 professional engineering, where public health, public welfare or 1-10 public safety is involved, unless the engineering plans and 1-11 specifications and estimates have been prepared by, and the 1-12 engineering construction is to be executed under the direct 1-13 supervision of a registered professional engineer. However, 1-14 nothing in this Act shall be held to apply to any public work 1-15 involving structural, electrical, or mechanical engineering wherein 1-16 the contemplated expenditure for the completed project does not 1-17 exceed Eight Thousand ($8,000) Dollars. Nothing in this Act shall 1-18 be held to apply to other public works wherein the contemplated 1-19 expenditure for the completed project does not exceed Twenty 1-20 Thousand ($20,000) Dollars. 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 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.