1-1 By: Noriega (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 2260
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to contracts for the replacement or repair of public
1-9 school equipment or public school facilities.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 44.031(h), Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (h) If school equipment, a school facility, or a portion of
1-14 a school facility is destroyed, [or] severely damaged, or
1-15 experiences a major unforeseen operational or structural failure,
1-16 and the board of trustees determines that the delay posed by the
1-17 contract methods required by this section [competitive bidding
1-18 process] would prevent or substantially impair the conduct of
1-19 classes or other essential school activities, then contracts for
1-20 the replacement or repair of the equipment, school facility, or
1-21 portion of the school facility may be made by a method other than
1-22 the methods [without competitive bidding as otherwise] required by
1-23 this section.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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