By Ehrhardt, et al. H.B. No. 2692 75R7335 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the method of bidding for certain contracts related to 1-3 community development programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 252.021, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) This chapter does not apply to the expenditure of 1-8 municipal funds that are derived from an appropriation, loan, or 1-9 grant received by a municipality from the federal or state 1-10 government for conducting a community development program 1-11 established under Chapter 373 if under the program items are 1-12 purchased under a request-for-proposal process. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.