By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1416
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the procedures for requesting and receiving bids on
 1-2     certain state construction projects.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 2166.253,
 1-5     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  After final approval of a project's working plans and
 1-7     specifications and their acceptance by a using agency, the
 1-8     commission shall advertise in one newspaper of general circulation,
 1-9     in [and] the Texas Register, and in an electronic format as
1-10     required by Section 2155.083  for bids or proposals for the
1-11     construction of and related work on the project.
1-12           (b)  Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (c) and
1-13     (d), the commission shall allow bidders not less than 30 days after
1-14     the date the commission issues the bid documents to respond to an
1-15     invitation to bid.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.