By: Eckels H.B. No. 1020 73R781 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of counties to regulate the information 1-3 resources technologies of county officers and employees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 262, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 262.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 262.006. INFORMATION RESOURCES TECHNOLOGIES. (a) In 1-8 this section, "information resources technologies" has the meaning 1-9 assigned by Section 3 of the Information Resources Management Act 1-10 (Article 4413(32j), Revised Statutes). 1-11 (b) The commissioners court of a county by order may: 1-12 (1) set standards for the acquisition of information 1-13 resources technologies by any county officer or employee to ensure 1-14 compatibility of those technologies between county offices; 1-15 (2) require that the same type of information resource 1-16 technology be acquired or used by each county officer or employee; 1-17 (3) create a central purchasing department in the 1-18 county through which acquisitions of information resources 1-19 technologies for county officers and employees must be made; and 1-20 (4) require that the acquisition of new information 1-21 resources technologies or the updating of existing information 1-22 resources technologies be made through a central purchasing 1-23 department in the county or be made through the General Services 1-24 Commission under Subchapter D, Chapter 271. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.