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. 1-26 * * * * *