By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1394
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                                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 1-9     Session, 1997, is repealed.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1-11     Regular Session,  1997, is repealed.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.