By Clark                                        H.B. No. 1161

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to uniform competitive bidding requirements for

 1-3     municipalities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 271.021(2), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7                 (2)  "Governmental entity" means:

 1-8                       (A)  a county;

 1-9                       (B)  [a municipality;]

1-10                       [(C)]  a common or independent school district;

1-11                       (C) [(D)]  a hospital district or authority;

1-12                       (D) [(E)]  a housing authority;  or

1-13                       (E) [(F)]  an agency or instrumentality of the

1-14     governmental entities described by Paragraphs (A) through (D)

1-15     [(E)].

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 271.023, Local Government Code, is

1-17     repealed.

1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-19     applies only to a contract for which a municipality first solicits

1-20     bids or proposals on or after that date.

1-21           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.