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1-11 repealed.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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 735 passed the Senate on
March 30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 735 passed the House on
May 22, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor