AN ACT 1-1 relating to retainage on certain highway contracts. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 223.010, Transportation Code, is amended 1-4 by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as 1-5 follows: 1-6 (a) Five percent of the contract price shall be retained 1-7 until the entire improvement has been completed and accepted except 1-8 as provided in Subsection (h). 1-9 (h) Four percent of the contract price shall be retained 1-10 until the entire improvement has been completed and accepted on any 1-11 contract that includes the use of recycled materials. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1195 passed the Senate on April 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1195 passed the House, with amendment, on May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor