1-1 By: Hartnett (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 2647 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999; 1-3 May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the procurement of legal services by the Texas Turnpike 1-9 Authority Division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 402.0212(c), Government Code, is amended 1-12 to read as follows: 1-13 (c) This section shall not apply to the Texas Turnpike 1-14 Authority division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-22 * * * * *