By: Wentworth S.B. No. 508 73R2326 RWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county purchase of road construction material. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 262.027, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) In determining the lowest and best bid for a contract 1-7 for the purchase of road construction material, the commissioners 1-8 court may consider the pickup and delivery locations of the bidders 1-9 and the cost to the county of delivering or hauling the material to 1-10 be purchased. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.