By Hill H.B. No. 1430 75R6380 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to payment bonds on certain public works contracts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2253.021, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) A payment bond is not required for the portion of a 1-7 design/build contract that includes design services only. 1-8 SECTION 2. Section 2253.027, Government Code, is repealed. 1-9 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-10 SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to 1-11 a public works contract entered into on or after September 1, 1997. 1-12 A public works contract entered into before September 1, 1997, is 1-13 governed by the law in effect on the date the contract was entered 1-14 into, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-15 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.