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.