1-1 By: West S.B. No. 1416
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 19, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1416 By: Brown
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the procedures for requesting and receiving bids on
1-11 certain state construction projects.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 2166.253,
1-14 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) After final approval of a project's working plans and
1-16 specifications and their acceptance by a using agency, the
1-17 commission shall advertise in one newspaper of general circulation,
1-18 in [and] the Texas Register, and in an electronic format as
1-19 required by Section 2155.083 for bids or proposals for the
1-20 construction of and related work on the project.
1-21 (b) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (c) and
1-22 (d), the commission shall allow bidders not less than 30 days after
1-23 the date the commission issues the bid documents to respond to an
1-24 invitation to bid.
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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