Amends SB 1458 on third reading by inserting the following:
      SECTION__. Section 2260.003(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      (a) The total amount of money recoverable on a claim for
breach of contract under this chapter may not, after deducting the
amount specified in Subsection (b), exceed an amount equal to the
sum of:
            (1) the balance due and owing on the contract price;
and
            (2) the amount or fair market value of orders or
requests <, including orders> for additional work made by a unit of
state government to the extent that the orders or requests for
additional work were actually performed.
      SECTION__. Section 2260.005, Government Code, is amended to
read as follow:
      Sec. 2260.005. EXCLUSIVE PROCEDURE. Subject to Section
2260.007, the <The> procedures contained in this chapter are
exclusive and required prerequisites to suit in accordance with
Chapter 107, Civil Practice and Remedies Code.
      SECTION__. Subchapter A, Chapter 2260, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2260.007 to read as follows:
      Sec. 2260.007. LEGISLATIVE PERMISSION TO SUE. (a)
Notwithstanding Section 2260.005, the legislature retains the
authority to deny or grant a waiver of immunity to suit against a
unit of state government by statute, resolution, or any other means
the legislature may determine appropriate.
      (b) This chapter does not and may not be interpreted to:
            (1) divest the legislature of the authority to grant
permission to sue a unit of state government on the terms,
conditions, and procedures that the legislature may specify in the
measure granting the permission;
            (2) require that the legislature, in granting or
denying permission to sue a unit of state government, comply with
this chapter; or
            (3) limit in any way the effect of a legislative grant
of permission to sue a unit of state government unless the grant
itself provides that this chapter may have that effect.
      SECTION__. (a) This Act applies only to a contract executed
on or after the effective date of this Act.  A contract executed
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
applicable to the contract immediately before the effective date of
the Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.