By West S.B. No. 663 76R5701 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the prohibition on discrimination in the award of 1-3 public contracts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 106.001, Civil Practice and Remedies 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) This section does not prohibit the adoption of a program 1-8 designed to increase the participation of businesses owned and 1-9 controlled by women, minorities, or disadvantaged persons in public 1-10 contract awards. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.