By: Harris of Tarrant S.B. No. 121
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to specifications of vehicles purchased or leased by the
1-2 state.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3.29, State Purchasing
1-5 and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-6 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A state agency may not purchase or lease a vehicle
1-8 designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons,
1-9 including a station wagon, that has a wheel base longer than 116
1-10 <113> inches or that has more than 280 <160> SAE net horsepower.
1-11 This provision does not apply to the purchase or lease of a vehicle
1-12 to be used primarily for criminal law enforcement or a bus,
1-13 motorcycle, pickup, van, truck, three-wheel vehicle, tractor, or
1-14 ambulance.
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.