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.