By: Gallegos S.B. No. 823
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to contracts for the replacement or repair of equipment or
1-2 a part of a school facility.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 44.031, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (h) to read as follows:
1-6 (h) If school equipment or a part of a school facility is
1-7 destroyed or severely damaged or, as a result of an unforseen
1-8 catastrophe or emergency, undergoes major operational or structural
1-9 failure, and the board of trustees determines that the delay posed
1-10 by the methods provided for in this section [competitive bidding
1-11 process] would prevent or substantially impair the conduct of
1-12 classes or other essential school activities, then contracts for
1-13 the replacement or repair of the equipment or the part of the
1-14 school facility may be made by methods other than those [without
1-15 competitive bidding as otherwise] required by this section.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.