By Giddings                                            H.B. No. 882
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that the governing body of a
    1-3  municipality approve change orders for municipal construction
    1-4  contracts.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 252.048(c), Local Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (c)  If a change order involves a decrease or an increase of
    1-9  $25,000 <$15,000> or less, the governing body may grant general
   1-10  authority to an administrative official of the municipality to
   1-11  approve the change orders.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.