By West                                               H.B. No. 1003
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirements for competitive bidding and proposal
 1-3     procedures in certain municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 252.021(b) and (c), Local Government
 1-6     Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  Before a municipality with a population of less than
 1-8     75,000 [100,000] may enter into a contract for insurance that
 1-9     requires an  expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more
1-10     municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the procedure
1-11     prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding.
1-12           (c)  A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-13     procedure only for high technology procurements or, in a
1-14     municipality with a population of 75,000 or more [in excess of
1-15     100,000], the purchase of insurance.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-17     to a purchase for which the notice required by Section 252.041,
1-18     Local Government Code, is first published on or after the effective
1-19     date of this Act.  A purchase for which the notice is first
1-20     published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-21     law applicable to the purchase immediately before the effective
1-22     date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-23     purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.