By Shields                                            H.B. No. 3704
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3704:
         By Wolens                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3704
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement for the name, address and phone number
 1-3     of the bondsman to appear on the face of performance and payment
 1-4     bonds.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 2253.021, Government Code is amended to
 1-7     add the following:
 1-8           (f)  All bonds required under this chapter shall clearly and
 1-9     prominently display on the face of the bond:
1-10                 (1)  the name of the surety issuing the bond;
1-11                 (2)  the name of the surety contact person, if any,
1-12     mailing address, physical address, area code and telephone number
1-13     to whom any notice of claims should be given.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 2253.024(a) Government Code is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           (a)  A prime contractor, on the written request of a person
1-17     who provides public work labor or material and when required by
1-18     Subsection (c), shall provide to the person:
1-19                 (1)  the name and last known address of the
1-20     governmental entity with whom the prime contractor contracted for
1-21     the public work; [and]
1-22                 (2)  a copy of the payment and performance bonds for
1-23     the public work, including bonds furnished by or to the prime
1-24     contractor;[.]
 2-1                 (3)  the name of the surety issuing the bond; and
 2-2                 (4)  the name of the surety contact person, if any,
 2-3     mailing address, physical address, area code and telephone number
 2-4     to whom any notice of claim should be given.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  Section 2253.026(a), Government Code is amended
 2-6     to read as follows:
 2-7           (a)  A governmental entity shall furnish:
 2-8                 (1)  a certified copy of a payment bond; [and]
 2-9                 (2)  the public work contract for which the bond was
2-10     given;
2-11                 (3)  the name of the surety issuing the bond; and
2-12                 (4)  the name of the surety contact person, if any,
2-13     mailing address, physical address, area code and telephone number
2-14     to whom any notice of claim should be given to any person who
2-15     applies for the information [copy] and who submits an affidavit
2-16     that the person:
2-17                       (A) [(1)]  has supplied public work labor or
2-18     material for which the person has not been paid;
2-19                       (B) [(2)]  has contracted for specially
2-20     fabricated material for which the person has not been paid; or
2-21                       (C) [(3)]  is being sued on a payment bond.
2-22           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-23           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-2     passage, and it is so enacted.