S.B. No. 508
AN ACT
1-1 relating to county purchase of road construction material.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 262.027, Local Government Code, is
1-4 amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The officer in charge of opening the bids shall present
1-7 them to the commissioners court in session. Except as provided by
1-8 Subsection (e), the <The> court shall:
1-9 (1) award the contract to the responsible bidder who
1-10 submits the lowest and best bid; or
1-11 (2) reject all bids and publish a new notice.
1-12 (e) In determining the lowest and best bid for a contract
1-13 for the purchase of road construction material, the commissioners
1-14 court may consider the pickup and delivery locations of the bidders
1-15 and the cost to the county of delivering or hauling the material to
1-16 be purchased. The commissioners court may award contracts for the
1-17 purchase of road construction material to more than one bidder if
1-18 each of the selected bidders submits the lowest and best bid for a
1-19 particular location or type of material.
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
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.