By: Nichols S.B. No. 1021
(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2023; March 3, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
March 15, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; March 15, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the handling of bids on certain contracts for highway
projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 223.005, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 223.005. BIDS ON CONTRACTS INVOLVING LESS THAN $1
MILLION [$300,000].
SECTION 2. Section 223.005(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commission by rule may allow bids on a contract
estimated by the department to involve an amount less than $1
million [$300,000] to be filed with the district engineer at the
headquarters for the district in which the improvement is to be made
and opened and read at a public meeting held by the district
engineer or the district engineer's designee.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
bids for which the notice of bid is given on or after the effective
date of this Act. A notice of bid given before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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