1-1 By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 1900
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 1995;
1-3 May 5, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to routine purchases and contracts made by a port
1-9 commission.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 60.403, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 Sec. 60.403. Contracts: Purchases. A port commission or
1-14 authorized designated officer of the port commission may make
1-15 routine purchases or contracts in an amount not to exceed $25,000
1-16 <$10,000>. Before a purchase is made, a purchase order must be
1-17 signed by the executive director of the district or the port
1-18 authority or the authorized designated officer. The purchase order
1-19 must be executed in duplicate with one copy delivered to the person
1-20 from whom the purchase is made and one copy remaining on file in
1-21 the district or port authority.
1-22 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 60.404, Water Code, is
1-23 amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) If the materials, supplies, machinery, equipment, or
1-25 other items to be purchased or contracted for exceed $25,000
1-26 <$15,000>, notice shall be published as provided by this section.
1-27 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 60.406, Water Code, is
1-28 amended to read as follows:
1-29 (a) Before a district or port authority may purchase one or
1-30 more items under a contract that will require an expenditure of
1-31 more than $25,000 <$15,000>, the port commission of that district
1-32 or port authority must comply with the competitive bidding
1-33 requirements or proposal procedures provided by Sections 60.404 and
1-34 60.405 of this code. All bids must be sealed.
1-35 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41 passage, and it is so enacted.
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