Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 912 amends a Government Code chapter relating to the transfer or disposition of surplus and salvage property, including computer equipment, by state agencies. It adds a nonprofit computer bank that solicits, stores, refurbishes, and redistributes used computer equipment to public school students and their families to the list of assistance organizations entitled to receive surplus state computer equipment. Should such equipment not be sold after it is posted on the comptroller's website, previous law mandates transfer to a school district, an open-enrollment charter school, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The bill adds transfer to an assistance organization specified by the school district. For institutions and agencies of higher education, the bill adds an assistance organization designated by a school district as a recipient for surplus and salvage property generally. It creates an exception to the chapter's procedures for the surplus computer equipment of other state agencies involved in the areas of education, health, or human services, but similarly requires them to give preference to a public school, a school district, or an assistance organization specified by the school district.