1-1  By:  Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Luna)         H.B. No. 1897
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
    1-3  May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 26, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 26, 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 the authority of the publisher of the session laws to
   1-24  sell copies of the session laws to the public.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Section 3.25, State Purchasing and General
   1-27  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-28  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-29        (e)  Section 3.26 of this Act does not apply to the printing
   1-30  and sale of copies of the general and special laws to the public by
   1-31  the printer of those laws under a contract authorized by this
   1-32  section.
   1-33        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to the
   1-34  printing and sale of copies of the general and special laws by a
   1-35  printer under a contract authorized by Section 3.25, State
   1-36  Purchasing and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas
   1-37  Civil Statutes), even if the contract was entered into before the
   1-38  effective date of this Act.
   1-39        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-44  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-45  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-47                                                         Austin,
   1-48  Texas
   1-49                                                         May 26, 1993
   1-50  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-51  President of the Senate
   1-52  Sir:
   1-53  We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
   1-54  No. 1897, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-55  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-56  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-57                                                         Harris of
   1-58  Dallas, Chairman
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   1-60                               WITNESSES
   1-61                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-62  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-63  Name:  Gregory Watson                            x
   1-64  Representing:  Self
   1-65  City:  Austin
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