1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 792
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1995; February 28, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
1-4 April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to certain contracts of the Trinity River Authority.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 13, Chapter 518, Acts of the 54th
1-11 Legislature, 1955 (Article 8280-188, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-12 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 13. Any construction contract or contract for the
1-14 purchase of material, equipment or supplies is subject to the
1-15 requirements of general law <requiring an expenditure of more than
1-16 Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) shall be made to the lowest and best
1-17 bidder after publication of a notice to bidders once each week for
1-18 two (2) weeks before awarding the contract. Such notice shall be
1-19 sufficient if it states the time and place when and where the bids
1-20 will be opened, the general nature of the work to be done, or the
1-21 material, equipment or supplies to be purchased, and states where
1-22 and the terms upon which copies of the plans and specifications may
1-23 be obtained. The publication shall be in a newspaper or other
1-24 publication designated by the Board of Directors>.
1-25 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-26 to a contract executed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-27 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-28 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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