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.