By West S.B. No. 1416
76R7212 JRD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the procedures for requesting and receiving bids on
1-3 certain state construction projects.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 2166.253(a) and (b), Government Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) After final approval of a project's working plans and
1-8 specifications and their acceptance by a using agency, the
1-9 commission shall advertise in one newspaper of general circulation,
1-10 in [and] the Texas Register, in an electronic format as required
1-11 by other law, and in any other locations required by law for bids
1-12 or proposals for the construction of and related work on the
1-13 project.
1-14 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) [(c)], the
1-15 commission shall allow bidders not less than 30 days after the date
1-16 the commission issues the bid documents to respond to an
1-17 invitation to bid.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.