By Harris                                              S.B. No. 792
       74R6746 MI-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain contracts of the Trinity River Authority.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 13, Chapter 518, Acts of the 54th
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1955 (Article 8280-188, Vernon's
    1-6  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 13.  Any construction contract or contract for the
    1-8  purchase of material, equipment or supplies is subject to the
    1-9  requirements of general law <requiring an expenditure of more than
   1-10  Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) shall be made to the lowest and best
   1-11  bidder after publication of a notice to bidders once each week for
   1-12  two (2) weeks before awarding the contract.  Such notice shall be
   1-13  sufficient if it states the time and place when and where the bids
   1-14  will be opened, the general nature of the work to be done, or the
   1-15  material, equipment or supplies to be purchased, and states where
   1-16  and the terms upon which copies of the plans and specifications may
   1-17  be obtained.  The publication shall be in a newspaper or other
   1-18  publication designated by the Board of Directors>.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-20  to a contract executed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.