By Conley                                             H.B. No. 2260
       74R2467 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring the printing of the governor's vetoes and
    1-3  veto proclamations with the general and special laws passed by the
    1-4  legislature.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 3.25, State Purchasing and General
    1-7  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-8  amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-9        (f)  A contract for the printing of the general and special
   1-10  laws under this section must include a stipulation requiring the
   1-11  final volume of the laws passed at each regular or called session
   1-12  of the legislature to contain a list of the bills and resolutions
   1-13  passed at that session that were disapproved by the governor,
   1-14  together with the text of the governor's statement of objections
   1-15  made in connection with the governor's disapproval of each bill or
   1-16  resolution.  The secretary of state shall furnish the list of
   1-17  disapproved bills and resolutions and applicable statements of
   1-18  disapproval to the printer on or before the date provided by
   1-19  Subsection (c) of this section for furnishing all copy for the
   1-20  bills and resolutions passed at the applicable session of the
   1-21  legislature.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not apply
   1-23  to a contract for the printing of the general and special laws of
   1-24  this state entered into before the effective date of this Act.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.