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. TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN., art. 3271a, Section 1-4 19(a) is amended to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 19. (a) It is unlawful for this State or for any of 1-6 its political subdivisions, including any county, city, or town, to 1-7 engage in the construction of any public work involving 1-8 professional engineering, where public health, public welfare or 1-9 public safety is involved, unless the engineering plans and 1-10 specifications and estimates have been prepared by, and the 1-11 engineering construction is to be executed under the direct 1-12 supervision of a registered professional engineer. However, 1-13 nothing in this Act shall be held to apply to any public work 1-14 involving structural, electrical, or mechanical engineering wherein 1-15 the contemplated expenditure for the completed project does not 1-16 exceed Eight Thousand ($8,000) Dollars. Nothing in this Act shall 1-17 be held to apply to other public work wherein the contemplated 1-18 expenditure for the completed project does not exceed Twenty 1-19 Thousand ($20,000) Dollars. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.