By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 1660
       74R2466 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the printing of the session laws.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3.25(b), State Purchasing and General
    1-5  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  There shall also be placed in the contract a stipulation
    1-8  requiring the printer to have the proof read and corrected before
    1-9  submitting such proof to the state, a stipulation requiring the
   1-10  bound volumes of the laws passed by a specific legislature,
   1-11  including laws passed in called session, to be numbered
   1-12  consecutively, and a stipulation requiring the printer to set out
   1-13  in the first volume of the general and special laws passed by each
   1-14  legislature or in a volume of the general and special laws passed
   1-15  in a called session, as determined by the secretary of state,
   1-16  immediately preceding those general and special laws, an errata <a
   1-17  special> section containing corrections of any errors or omissions
   1-18  made in the publication of the general and special laws of the same
   1-19  or a preceding legislature <legislatures>.  The stipulation
   1-20  requiring printing of previous errors and omissions and applicable
   1-21  corrections may not require the printer to set out errors and
   1-22  omissions and applicable corrections relating to <in> laws passed
   1-23  in a legislative session that ended more than five years before the
   1-24  date of the call for bids for the contract.  The secretary of state
    2-1  shall provide the printer with the list of errors and omissions, if
    2-2  any, and the appropriate corrections that the secretary of state
    2-3  requires to be printed on or before the date provided by Subsection
    2-4  (c) of this section for the secretary of state to furnish the
    2-5  printer a copy of the laws and resolutions passed at the <first>
    2-6  session of the <each> legislature with which the list of errors and
    2-7  omissions and applicable corrections are to be printed.  The
    2-8  comptroller shall not issue a warrant to the printer in payment for
    2-9  the printing of such laws and resolutions unless and until the
   2-10  printer, if an individual, or if a corporation, partnership, or
   2-11  association, the vice-president, secretary, or manager of same has
   2-12  made a sworn affidavit that he has complied with this section.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not apply
   2-14  to a contract for the publication of the laws of this state entered
   2-15  into before the effective date of this Act.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.