By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1502
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the condemnation powers of navigation districts, the
1-2 ability of navigation district or port authorities to form local
1-3 government corporations and procurement powers of navigation
1-4 districts.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 62.106, Water Code, is amended by the
1-7 deletion of subsection (d), as follows:
1-8 [(d) No right of way may be condemned through any part of an
1-9 incorporated city or town without the consent of the lawful
1-10 authorities of that city or town.]
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 431.003(3), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (3) "Local government" means a municipality [or] county or
1-14 navigation district or port authority created under Article III,
1-15 Section 52 or Article XVI, Section 59, Texas Constitution, or other
1-16 public port authority.
1-17 SECTION 3. Chapter 62, Water Code, is amended by adding
1-18 Subchapter I, as follows:
1-19 SUBCHAPTER I, PURCHASES; CONTRACTS
1-20 Sec. 62.350. Purchasing Contracts. District contracts valued at
1-21 $25,000 or more in the aggregate for each 12-month period may be
1-22 made by any of the methods available to school districts under
2-1 Chapter 44, Subchapter B, Education Code, that provides the best
2-2 value to the district.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.