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.