By Thompson H.B. No. 1513 75R5659 MLS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the recovery by state agencies of certain indirect 1-3 costs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2106.005, Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 2106.005. AGENCY RECOVERY OF INDIRECT COSTS. (a) A 1-8 state agency shall implement its indirect cost recovery plan by: 1-9 (1) applying for reimbursement for federally 1-10 reimbursable indirect costs; and 1-11 (2) when permitted by law, setting fees and billing 1-12 rates at amounts sufficient to recover the indirect costs of the 1-13 agency. 1-14 (b) A contract between a state agency and a local government 1-15 regarding funding costs related to a construction project may not 1-16 require the local government to contribute to the state agency's 1-17 recovery of the agency's indirect costs. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a contract entered into 1-19 on or after the effective date of this Act. A contract entered 1-20 into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 1-21 as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, 1-22 and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.