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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