By Wilson H.B. No. 1394 76R1970 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to information submitted to a governmental entity by a 1-3 potential vendor or contractor in connection with an application 1-4 for certification as a historically underutilized or disadvantaged 1-5 business. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. (a) Section 552.127, Government Code, as added 1-8 by Section 1, Chapter 1227, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular 1-9 Session, 1997, is repealed. 1-10 (b) Section 2, Chapter 1227, Acts of the 75th Legislature, 1-11 Regular Session, 1997, is repealed. 1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not apply 1-13 to information submitted to a governmental entity by a potential 1-14 vendor or contractor in connection with an application for 1-15 certification as a historically underutilized or disadvantaged 1-16 business before the effective date of this Act during the time that 1-17 Section 552.127, Government Code, as added by Section 1, Chapter 1-18 1227, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, was law. 1-19 Information submitted to a governmental entity by a potential 1-20 vendor or contractor in connection with an application for 1-21 certification as a historically underutilized or disadvantaged 1-22 business during that time continues to be governed by Section 1-23 552.127, Government Code, as added by Section 1, Chapter 1227, Acts 1-24 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, and that law is 2-1 continued in effect for that limited purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.