By: Brown S.B. No. 1009 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the procurement of legal services by the Texas Turnpike 1-2 Authority Division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 402.0212(c), Government Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 (c) This section shall not apply to the Texas Turnpike 1-7 Authority division of the Texas Department of Transportation. 1-8 SECTION 2. Section 361.031, Transportation Code, is amended 1-9 by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-10 (h) Section 402.0212, Government Code, does not apply to the 1-11 procurement of legal services under this section. 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.