1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 735
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1999; March 1, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; March 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to contracts for the repair or maintenance of certain
1-9 equipment and vehicles of the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 201.704, Transportation
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) During a fiscal year the department shall spend for all
1-14 contracts under this section not less than 35 [25] percent of the
1-15 total amount it spends for vehicle repair and maintenance in that
1-16 year.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 201.705, Transportation Code, is
1-18 repealed.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25 passage, and it is so enacted.
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