1-1 By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Luna) H.B. No. 1898
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, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: 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 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Luna
1-22 Amend H.B. No. 1898 in Section 1 of the bill, by striking
1-23 amended Section 3.25(b), State Purchasing and General Services Act
1-24 (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and substituting the
1-25 following:
1-26 (b) There shall also be placed in the contract a stipulation
1-27 requiring the printer to have the proof read and corrected before
1-28 submitting such proof to the state, a stipulation requiring the
1-29 printer to set out in the first volume of the general and special
1-30 laws passed by each legislature and in any bound volume of general
1-31 and special laws passed by the legislature in special session,
1-32 immediately preceding those general and special laws, an errata
1-33 section containing corrections of any errors or omissions made in
1-34 the publication of the general and special laws of preceding
1-35 legislatures, and a stipulation that each bound volume of general
1-36 and special laws of a specific legislature, including laws passed
1-37 in a special session, be numbered consecutively. A stipulation may
1-38 not require the printer to set out errors and omissions in laws
1-39 passed in a legislative session that ended more than five years
1-40 before the date of the call for bids for the contract. The
1-41 secretary of state shall provide the printer with the list of
1-42 errors and omissions, if any, and the appropriate corrections on or
1-43 before the date provided by Subsection (c) of this section for the
1-44 secretary of state to furnish the printer a copy of the laws and
1-45 resolutions passed at the first session of each legislature. The
1-46 comptroller shall not issue a warrant to the printer in payment for
1-47 the printing of such laws and resolutions unless and until the
1-48 printer, if an individual, or if a corporation, partnership, or
1-49 association, the vice-president, secretary, or manager of same has
1-50 made a sworn affidavit that he has complied with this section.
1-51 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-52 AN ACT
1-53 relating to the printing of corrections to the published general
1-54 and special laws.
1-55 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-56 SECTION 1. Section 3.25(b), State Purchasing and General
1-57 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-58 amended to read as follows:
1-59 (b) There shall also be placed in the contract a stipulation
1-60 requiring the printer to have the proof read and corrected before
1-61 submitting such proof to the state and a stipulation requiring the
1-62 printer to set out in the first volume of the general and special
1-63 laws passed by each legislature, immediately preceding those
1-64 general and special laws, a special section containing corrections
1-65 of any errors or omissions made in the publication of the general
1-66 and special laws of preceding legislatures. The stipulation may
1-67 not require the printer to set out errors and omissions in laws
1-68 passed in a legislative session that ended more than five years
2-1 before the date of the call for bids for the contract. The
2-2 secretary of state shall provide the printer with the list of
2-3 errors and omissions, if any, and the appropriate corrections on or
2-4 before the date provided by Subsection (c) of this section for the
2-5 secretary of state to furnish the printer a copy of the laws and
2-6 resolutions passed at the first session of each legislature. The
2-7 comptroller shall not issue a warrant to the printer in payment for
2-8 the printing of such laws and resolutions unless and until the
2-9 printer, if an individual, or if a corporation, partnership, or
2-10 association, the vice-president, secretary, or manager of same has
2-11 made a sworn affidavit that he has complied with this section.
2-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not apply
2-13 to a contract for the publication of the laws of this state
2-14 executed before the effective date of this Act.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-22 * * * * *
2-23 Austin,
2-24 Texas
2-25 May 26, 1993
2-26 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-27 President of the Senate
2-28 Sir:
2-29 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. No.
2-30 1898, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-31 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-32 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-33 Harris of
2-34 Dallas, Chairman
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2-36 WITNESSES
2-37 FOR AGAINST ON
2-38 ___________________________________________________________________
2-39 Name: Gregory D. Watson x
2-40 Representing: Self
2-41 City: Austin
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