Bill Text: TX SB1877 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1877 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to sending notice of proposed contracts for highway projects by e-mail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [SB1877 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1877-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Perry	S.B. No. 1877
	(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 23, 2017, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
	April 6, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; April 6, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to sending notice of proposed contracts for highway
	projects by e-mail.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Section 223.003, Transportation
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 223.003. NOTICE OF PROPOSED CONTRACTS [~~BY MAIL~~].
	SECTION 2. Sections 223.003(a), (b), and (c),
	Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a) A person may apply to have the name of the person placed
	on a [~~mailing~~] list to receive notice of any proposed contracts.
	(b) The department shall send [~~mail~~] the notice to each
	person on that [~~mailing~~] list. The department may send the notice
	by mail or electronically to an e-mail address designated by the
	person.
	(c) The department may require each applicant to pay an
	annual subscription fee set by the department in an amount not to
	exceed the average annual costs of sending [~~mailing~~] notices to the
	applicant.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2017.

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