By:  Harris, Chris                                     S.B. No. 121
       73R128 MLM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to specifications of vehicles purchased or leased by the
    1-3  state.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3.29(a), State Purchasing and General
    1-6  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  A state agency may not purchase or lease a vehicle
    1-9  designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons,
   1-10  including a station wagon, that has a wheel base longer than 116
   1-11  <113> inches or that has more than 170 <160> SAE net horsepower.
   1-12  This provision does not apply to the purchase or lease of a vehicle
   1-13  to be used primarily for criminal law enforcement or a bus,
   1-14  motorcycle, pickup, van, truck, three-wheel vehicle, tractor, or
   1-15  ambulance.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.