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.