By Armbrister S.B. No. 735
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to contracts for the repair or maintenance of certain
1-3 equipment of the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 201.704(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) During a fiscal year the department shall spend for all
1-8 contracts under this section not less than 35 [25] percent of the
1-9 total amount it spends for vehicle repair and maintenance in that
1-10 year.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 201.705, Transportation Code, is
1-12 repealed.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.