By Hartnett H.B. No. 2647 76R9041 T A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the procurement of legal services by the Texas Turnpike 1-3 Authority Division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.0212(c), Government Code, is amended 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (c) This section shall not apply to the Texas Turnpike 1-8 Authority division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-9 SECTION 2. Section 361.031, Transportation Code, is amended 1-10 by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-11 (h) Section 402.0212, Government Code, does not apply to the 1-12 procurement of legal services under this section. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.