Bill Text: TX SB1021 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 1021 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the handling of bids on certain contracts for highway projects.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB1021 Detail]

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	By: Nichols	S.B. No. 1021


	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.