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.

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