1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1009
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 7, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the procurement of legal services by the Texas Turnpike
 1-9     Authority division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 402.0212, Government
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  This section shall not apply to the Texas Turnpike
1-14     Authority division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Section 361.031, Transportation Code, is amended
1-16     by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
1-17           (h)  Section 402.0212, Government Code, does not apply to the
1-18     procurement of legal services under this section.
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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