By Armbrister S.B. No. 689
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 689:
By Eckels C.S.S.B. No. 689
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the prohibition on the purchase or lease of printing
1-3 shop equipment by certain state agencies and to the study of state
1-4 printing shops and printing operations during the comptroller's
1-5 Texas Performance Review, and to the issue of private printing
1-6 services.
1-7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-8 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
1-9 (1) "State agency" means a board, commission,
1-10 department, office, or other agency that is in the executive branch
1-11 of state government and that was created by the constitution or a
1-12 statute of the state. The term does not include an institution of
1-13 higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.
1-14 (2) "Printing shop equipment" means personal property
1-15 that is used primarily for the production of large quantities of
1-16 printed material. The term does not include a computer terminal,
1-17 low-volume computer printer, copier, or other related property that
1-18 is used by professional or clerical staff in the ordinary course of
1-19 conducting an agency's primary business.
1-20 (3) "Printing shop" means a place where printing shop
1-21 equipment is used.
1-22 (4) "Printing" means the production of a document
1-23 that:
1-24 (A) exceeds 30 pages in length and that is
2-1 produced in quantities that exceed 100 copies;
2-2 (B) includes a variety of colors and graphics;
2-3 or
2-4 (C) is produced in configurations that require
2-5 the use of printing shop equipment.
2-6 (5) "Texas Performance Review" means the periodic
2-7 review and analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of agencies
2-8 that may be conducted by the comptroller under Section 7, Article
2-9 6252-31, Revised Statutes, as added by Chapter 384, Acts of the
2-10 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991.
2-11 SECTION 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE OF PRINTING SHOP
2-12 EQUIPMENT. A state agency that is not operating a printing shop on
2-13 the effective date of this Act may not purchase or lease printing
2-14 shop equipment. This section does not prohibit a state agency from
2-15 carrying out the obligations incurred under a contract executed
2-16 before the effective date of this Act.
2-17 SECTION 3. STUDY OF STATE PRINTING TO BE INCLUDED IN TEXAS
2-18 PERFORMANCE REVIEW. The comptroller shall review and analyze the
2-19 scope, cost, and efficiency of state agency printing activities
2-20 during each periodic Texas Performance Review. The comptroller's
2-21 performance review staff shall review and analyze printing
2-22 efficiency during its review of each state agency that conducts
2-23 printing operations. The comptroller shall also make
2-24 recommendations on making state printing operations in general more
2-25 efficient. Texas Performance Review recommendations on state
2-26 printing efficiency shall recommend, when appropriate, the use of
2-27 private, nongovernmental printing vendors.
3-1 SECTION 4. PRINTING SERVICES SUPPLIED BY PRIVATE VENDOR. A
3-2 state agency shall use a private, nongovernmental printing vendor
3-3 when that will result in cost savings to the state. It is the
3-4 policy of this state that all state agency printing be performed by
3-5 a private, nongovernmental printing vendor except when that would
3-6 increase the cost to the state.
3-7 SECTION 5. 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.