By Noriega                                            H.B. No. 2260
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to contracts for the replacement or repair of public
 1-3     school equipment or public school facilities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 44.031(h), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  If school equipment, a school facility, or a portion of
 1-8     a school facility is destroyed, [or] severely damaged, or
 1-9     experiences a major unforeseen operational or structural failure,
1-10     and the board of trustees determines that the delay posed by the
1-11     contract methods required by this section [competitive bidding
1-12     process] would prevent or substantially impair the conduct of
1-13     classes or other essential school activities, then contracts for
1-14     the replacement or repair of the equipment, school facility, or
1-15     portion of the school facility may be made by a method other than
1-16     the methods [without competitive bidding as otherwise] required by
1-17     this section.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.