By:  Hilderbran                                       H.B. No. 1227
       73R5501 T
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a prohibition on the purchase or lease of printing shop
    1-3  equipment by certain state agencies and to the inclusion of state
    1-4  print shops and printing operations in the Texas Performance Review
    1-5  audits and recommendations.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
    1-8              (1)  "State agency" means a board, commission,
    1-9  department, office or other agency that is in the executive branch
   1-10  of state government and that was created by the constitution or a
   1-11  statute of the state, excluding institutions of higher education as
   1-12  defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;
   1-13              (2)  "Printing shop equipment" means personal property
   1-14  that is used primarily for the production of large quantities of
   1-15  printed material.  The term does not include a computer terminal,
   1-16  low-volume computer printer, copier, or other related property that
   1-17  is used by professional or clerical staff in the ordinary course of
   1-18  conducting an agency's primary business;
   1-19              (3)  "Printing shop" means a place where printing shop
   1-20  equipment is used;
   1-21              (4)  "Printing" means the production of documents which
   1-22  exceed thirty (30) pages and are produced in quantities that exceed
   1-23  one hundred (100), or documents which use various colors and
   1-24  graphics or which are produced in configurations that require the
    2-1  use of printing shop equipment;
    2-2              (5)  "Texas Performance Review" means the on-going
    2-3  study of state government directed by the Comptroller of Public
    2-4  Accounts which has produced "Breaking the Mold," "Against the
    2-5  Grain," and other documents.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE OF PRINTING SHOP
    2-7  EQUIPMENT.  A state agency that is not operating a printing shop on
    2-8  the effective date of this Act may not purchase or lease printing
    2-9  shop equipment.  This section does not prohibit a state agency from
   2-10  carrying out obligations incurred under a contract executed before
   2-11  the effective date of this Act.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  STUDY OF STATE PRINTING TO BE INCLUDED IN TEXAS
   2-13  PERFORMANCE REVIEW.  The scope, cost, and efficiency of the state's
   2-14  printing activities shall be included in all on-going and future
   2-15  Texas Performance Review operations.  The Texas Performance Review
   2-16  staff shall research printing efficiency when reviewing any state
   2-17  agency or state function and make recommendations on making state
   2-18  printing more efficient.  Texas Performance Review recommendations
   2-19  on state printing efficiency shall include, when appropriate, the
   2-20  use of private, non-governmental printing vendors.
   2-21        SECTION 4.  STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT FOR
   2-22  PRIVATIZATION OF STATE PRINTING SERVICES.  Enactment of this Act
   2-23  constitutes legislative support for the use of private,
   2-24  non-governmental printing vendors when the use of those vendors
   2-25  will result in cost savings to the State.  Enactment of this Act
   2-26  further constitutes legislative support for the privatization of
   2-27  all printing services in the executive branch of state government,
    3-1  except when the privatization of a particular printing function
    3-2  would result in increased cost to the State.
    3-3        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    3-4  and the crowded condition on the calendars in both houses create an
    3-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be heard of three several
    3-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-9  passage, and it is so enacted.