75R8902 JD-F By Bosse H.B. No. 2337 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2337: By Pickett C.S.H.B. No. 2337 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the recovery of certain indirect costs by the Texas 1-3 Department of Transportation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 2106, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 2106.008 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 2106.008. INDIRECT COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH CERTAIN TEXAS 1-8 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENTS. The executive director of 1-9 the Texas Department of Transportation may waive the application of 1-10 this chapter to indirect costs of the department associated with an 1-11 agreement entered into by the department with another agency of 1-12 this state or a local governmental entity, if the agreement relates 1-13 to: 1-14 (1) the development of a transportation project; or 1-15 (2) a program administered by the department. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.