1-1 By: Leedom S.B. No. 528
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1993; March 2, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 6, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 6, 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: Carriker
1-22 Amend SECTION 1 of S.B. No. 528 on page 1, line 36, after
1-23 "employee's", by deleting "authorized travel", and substituting
1-24 "expenses".
1-25 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-26 AN ACT
1-27 relating to the use that a state officer or employee may make of a
1-28 state credit card.
1-29 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-30 SECTION 1. Section 14.02, State Purchasing and General
1-31 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-32 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-33 (d) A state officer or employee who is issued a card,
1-34 commonly known as a credit card, under a contract between a credit
1-35 card company and the state may use the card for any purpose that is
1-36 reasonably related to the officer's or employee's authorized travel
1-37 on state business, and that use of the card does not violate the
1-38 laws of this state:
1-39 (1) if the contract between the credit card company
1-40 and the state provides that the state is not liable for paying any
1-41 charges incurred by the use of the card; and
1-42 (2) without regard to whether the charges incurred by
1-43 the use of the card are reimbursable by the state.
1-44 SECTION 2. If conduct specifically permitted by Subsection
1-45 (d), Section 14.02, State Purchasing and General Services Act
1-46 (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by this
1-47 Act, is conduct that would otherwise constitute an offense under a
1-48 law of this state in existence immediately before the effective
1-49 date of this Act, the offense based on that conduct may not be
1-50 prosecuted on or after the effective date of this Act. If on the
1-51 effective date of this Act a criminal action is pending for the
1-52 offense based on that conduct, the action is dismissed on that
1-53 date. However, a final conviction for an offense under the
1-54 criminal laws of this state is unaffected by this Act if the final
1-55 conviction exists on the effective date of this Act.
1-56 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-57 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-58 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-59 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-60 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-61 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-62 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 Austin,
1-65 Texas
1-66 April 6, 1993
1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-68 President of the Senate
2-1 Sir:
2-2 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-3 528, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-4 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-5 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-6 Harris of
2-7 Dallas, Chairman
2-8 * * * * *
2-9 WITNESSES
2-10 FOR AGAINST ON
2-11 ___________________________________________________________________
2-12 Name: Michael Powers x
2-13 Representing: General Services Commission
2-14 City: Austin
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