By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1900
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to routine purchases and contracts made by a port
1-3 commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 60.403, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 60.403. Contracts: Purchases. A port commission or
1-8 authorized designated officer of the port commission may make
1-9 routine purchases or contracts in an amount not to exceed $25,000
1-10 <$10,000>. Before a purchase is made, a purchase order must be
1-11 signed by the executive director of the district or the port
1-12 authority or the authorized designated officer. The purchase order
1-13 must be executed in duplicate with one copy delivered to the person
1-14 from whom the purchase is made and one copy remaining on file in
1-15 the district or port authority.
1-16 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 60.404, Water Code, is
1-17 amended to read as follows:
1-18 (a) If the materials, supplies, machinery, equipment, or
1-19 other items to be purchased or contracted for exceed $25,000
1-20 <$15,000>, notice shall be published as provided by this section.
1-21 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 60.406, Water Code, is
1-22 amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) Before a district or port authority may purchase one or
2-1 more items under a contract that will require an expenditure of
2-2 more than $25,000 <$15,000>, the port commission of that district
2-3 or port authority must comply with the competitive bidding
2-4 requirements or proposal procedures provided by Sections 60.404 and
2-5 60.405 of this code. All bids must be sealed.
2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.