By Goodman H.B. No. 1799
74R6746 MI-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain contracts of the Trinity River Authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13, Chapter 518, Acts of the 54th
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 8280-188, Vernon's
1-6 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 13. Any construction contract or contract for the
1-8 purchase of material, equipment or supplies is subject to the
1-9 requirements of general law <requiring an expenditure of more than
1-10 Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) shall be made to the lowest and best
1-11 bidder after publication of a notice to bidders once each week for
1-12 two (2) weeks before awarding the contract. Such notice shall be
1-13 sufficient if it states the time and place when and where the bids
1-14 will be opened, the general nature of the work to be done, or the
1-15 material, equipment or supplies to be purchased, and states where
1-16 and the terms upon which copies of the plans and specifications may
1-17 be obtained. The publication shall be in a newspaper or other
1-18 publication designated by the Board of Directors>.
1-19 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-20 to a contract executed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.