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 the request-for-proposal process described by

1-13     Section 252.042.  A municipality using a request-for-proposal

1-14     process under this subsection shall also comply with the

1-15     requirements of Section 252.0215.

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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2692 was passed by the House on April

         17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not

         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to

         H.B. No. 2692 on May 12, 1997, and requested the appointment of a

         conference committee to consider the differences between the two

         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report

         on H.B. No. 2692 on May 22, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 142,

         Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2692 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 8, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays

         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

         2692 on May 21, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor