73R6106 DWS-D By Marchant H.B. No. 1756 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain transfers of property by a county purchasing 1-3 agent. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 262.011(j), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (j) To prevent unnecessary purchases, the county purchasing 1-8 agent, with the approval of the commissioners court, shall transfer 1-9 county supplies, materials, and equipment from a subdivision, 1-10 department, officer, or employee of the county that are not needed 1-11 or used to another subdivision, department, officer, or employee 1-12 requiring the supplies or materials or the use of the equipment. 1-13 The county purchasing agent shall furnish to the county auditor a 1-14 list of transferred supplies, materials, and equipment. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.