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.