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.