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1-12     repealed.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.