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.