By Ehrhardt                                     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.