By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 735
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to contracts for the repair or maintenance of certain
 1-2     equipment and vehicles of the Texas Department of Transportation.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 201.704, Transportation
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  During a fiscal year the department shall spend for all
 1-7     contracts under this section not less than 35 [25] percent of the
 1-8     total amount it spends for vehicle repair and maintenance in that
 1-9     year.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 201.705, Transportation Code, is
1-11     repealed.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.