1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 1101
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the use of competitive bidding by an airport governed
1-9 by a joint board.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 22.084, Transportation
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) A joint board may enter into an agreement to spend the
1-14 proceeds of revenue bonds issued by its [If] constituent agencies,
1-15 the proceeds of bonds issued by [or] a nonprofit corporation
1-16 created under Section 22.152, [issues revenue bonds to finance the
1-17 construction or acquisition of a facility or other improvement at
1-18 an airport, the proceeds of the bonds] and any other airport income
1-19 or revenue [may be spent on projects for which the proceeds,
1-20 income, or revenue may otherwise be spent. An agreement may be
1-21 made to spend all or a portion of the proceeds, income, or revenue]
1-22 for the planning, construction, or acquisition of facilities
1-23 authorized by Sections 22.011(a)-(c) and 22.012 without inviting,
1-24 advertising for, or otherwise requiring competitive bids. A
1-25 contract wholly or partly funded with proceeds, income, or revenue
1-26 under this subsection shall be let in accordance with the joint
1-27 board's rules and policies relating to creation of contracting
1-28 opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses.
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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