By Noriega H.B. No. 2260
76R6784 BDH-F
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 portions of 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 or a portion of a school facility is
1-8 destroyed, [or] severely damaged, or experiences a major unforeseen
1-9 operational or structural failure, and the board of trustees
1-10 determines that the delay posed by the contract methods required by
1-11 this section [competitive bidding process] would prevent or
1-12 substantially impair the conduct of classes or other essential
1-13 school activities, then contracts for the replacement or repair of
1-14 the equipment or portion of the school facility may be made by a
1-15 method other than the methods [without competitive bidding as
1-16 otherwise] required by this section.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.