1-1 By: Ehrhardt, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 2692 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1997; 1-3 April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the method of bidding for certain contracts related to 1-10 community development programs. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 252.021, Local Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-14 (d) This chapter does not apply to the expenditure of 1-15 municipal funds that are derived from an appropriation, loan, or 1-16 grant received by a municipality from the federal or state 1-17 government for conducting a community development program 1-18 established under Chapter 373 if under the program items are 1-19 purchased under a request-for-proposal process. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-26 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-27 * * * * *