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.