By Noriega H.B. No. 2260
76R12168 BDH-D
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.