1-1 By: Earley (Senate Sponsor - Shelley) H.B. No. 1486
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1993;
1-3 May 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 24, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 24, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to requiring a state agency to consider the total cost to
1-24 the state of acquiring and operating a vehicle, including fuel
1-25 consumption costs, when the agency acquires a vehicle.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Section 3.29, State Purchasing and General
1-28 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-29 amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
1-30 (i) A state agency that purchases or leases a vehicle shall
1-31 consider, when determining the lowest and best bid to supply the
1-32 vehicle, the state's probable total costs relating to the vehicle
1-33 over the period that the state projects it will use the vehicle.
1-34 The probable total costs include lease or net purchase costs,
1-35 accounting for the probable resale value of the vehicle, estimated
1-36 maintenance costs, and estimated fuel costs. If the combined
1-37 usefulness and estimated total cost to the state of different
1-38 vehicles are equal, the agency shall give a preference to the more
1-39 fuel-efficient vehicle. This subsection does not affect a state
1-40 agency's duty under Subsections (b)-(h) of this section to acquire
1-41 a vehicle that uses or may be converted to use alternative fuels.
1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-49 * * * * *
1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 May 24, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-57 No. 1486, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-58 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-59 that it do pass and be printed.
1-60 Harris of
1-61 Dallas, Chairman
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1486.