By Puente H.B. No. 1940 74R6321 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring school districts to submit to competitive 1-3 bidding certain contracts for insurance. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.901, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-7 (i) A contract proposed to be made by the board of trustees 1-8 of a school district for insurance must be submitted to competitive 1-9 bidding if the contract is valued at more than $5,000. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 21.901(i), Education Code, as added by 1-11 this Act, applies only to a contract for insurance the board of 1-12 trustees of a school district enters into on or after the effective 1-13 date of this Act. 1-14 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.