By: Armbrister S.B. No. 689 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to a prohibition on the purchase or lease of printing shop 1-2 equipment by certain state agencies, to the study of state printing 1-3 shops and printing operations during the comptroller's Texas 1-4 Performance Review, and to the issue of private printing services. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: 1-7 (1) "State agency" means a board, commission, 1-8 department, office, or other agency that is in the executive branch 1-9 of state government and that was created by the constitution or a 1-10 statute of the state. The term includes an institution of higher 1-11 education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. 1-12 (2) "Printing shop equipment" means personal property 1-13 that is used primarily for the production of large quantities of 1-14 printed material. The term does not include a computer terminal, 1-15 low-volume computer printer, copier, or other related property that 1-16 is used by professional or clerical staff in the ordinary course of 1-17 conducting an agency's primary business. 1-18 (3) "Printing shop" means a place where printing shop 1-19 equipment is used. 1-20 (4) "Printing" means the production of a document 1-21 that: 1-22 (A) exceeds 30 pages in length and that is 1-23 produced in quantities that exceed 100 copies; 1-24 (B) includes a variety of colors and graphics; 2-1 or 2-2 (C) is produced in configurations that require 2-3 the use of printing shop equipment. 2-4 (5) "Texas Performance Review" means the periodic 2-5 review and analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of state 2-6 agencies that may be conducted by the comptroller under Section 7, 2-7 Article 6252-31, Revised Statutes, as added by Chapter 384, Acts of 2-8 the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991. 2-9 SECTION 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE OF PRINTING SHOP 2-10 EQUIPMENT. A state agency that is not operating a printing shop on 2-11 the effective date of this Act may not purchase or lease printing 2-12 shop equipment. This section does not prohibit a state agency from 2-13 carrying out obligations incurred under a contract executed before 2-14 the effective date of this Act. 2-15 SECTION 3. STUDY OF STATE PRINTING TO BE INCLUDED IN TEXAS 2-16 PERFORMANCE REVIEW. The comptroller shall review and analyze the 2-17 scope, cost, and efficiency of state agency printing activities 2-18 during each periodic Texas Performance Review. The comptroller's 2-19 performance review staff shall review and analyze printing 2-20 efficiency during its review of each state agency that conducts 2-21 printing operations. The comptroller shall also make 2-22 recommendations on making state printing operations in general more 2-23 efficient. Texas Performance Review recommendations on state 2-24 printing efficiency shall recommend, when appropriate, the use of 2-25 private, nongovernmental printing vendors. 2-26 SECTION 4. USE OF LOWEST COST PRINTING SERVICES. It is the 2-27 policy of this state that all agencies covered by this Act shall 3-1 utilize the lowest cost printing services available. In carrying 3-2 out this policy agencies shall consider the cost under interagency 3-3 contracts with other state agencies and the cost of private, 3-4 nongovernmental printing vendors. 3-5 SECTION 5. EXPIRATION DATE. This Act expires September 1, 3-6 1995. 3-7 SECTION 6. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 3-8 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-13 passage, and it is so enacted.