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.