By Bosse                                        H.B. No. 2337

      75R7022 JD-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the application of the indirect cost recovery program

 1-3     to certain indirect costs of the Texas Department of

 1-4     Transportation.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 2106, Government Code, is amended by

 1-7     adding Section 2106.008 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 2106.008.  NONAPPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN AGREEMENTS.  This

 1-9     chapter does not apply to indirect costs of the Texas Department of

1-10     Transportation associated with an agreement entered into by the

1-11     department with another agency of this state or a local

1-12     governmental entity, if the agreement relates to:

1-13                 (1)  the development of a transportation project; or

1-14                 (2)  a program administered by the department.

1-15           SECTION 2.  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,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.