By: Armbrister S.B. No. 689 73R5596 JRD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a prohibition on the purchase or lease of printing shop 1-3 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. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: 1-8 (1) "State agency" means a board, commission, 1-9 department, office, or other agency that is in the executive branch 1-10 of state government and that was created by the constitution or a 1-11 statute of the state. The term does not include an institution of 1-12 higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. 1-13 (2) "Printing shop equipment" means personal property 1-14 that is used primarily for the production of large quantities of 1-15 printed material. The term does not include a computer terminal, 1-16 low-volume computer printer, copier, or other related property that 1-17 is used by professional or clerical staff in the ordinary course of 1-18 conducting an agency's primary business. 1-19 (3) "Printing shop" means a place where printing shop 1-20 equipment is used. 1-21 (4) "Printing" means the production of a document 1-22 that: 1-23 (A) exceeds 30 pages in length and that is 1-24 produced in quantities that exceed 100 copies; 2-1 (B) includes a variety of colors and graphics; 2-2 or 2-3 (C) is produced in configurations that require 2-4 the use of printing shop equipment. 2-5 (5) "Texas Performance Review" means the periodic 2-6 review and analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of state 2-7 agencies that may be conducted by the comptroller under Section 7, 2-8 Article 6252-31, Revised Statutes, as added by Chapter 384, Acts of 2-9 the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991. 2-10 SECTION 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASE OF PRINTING SHOP 2-11 EQUIPMENT. A state agency that is not operating a printing shop on 2-12 the effective date of this Act may not purchase or lease printing 2-13 shop equipment. This section does not prohibit a state agency from 2-14 carrying out obligations incurred under a contract executed before 2-15 the effective date of this Act. 2-16 SECTION 3. STUDY OF STATE PRINTING TO BE INCLUDED IN TEXAS 2-17 PERFORMANCE REVIEW. The comptroller shall review and analyze the 2-18 scope, cost, and efficiency of state agency printing activities 2-19 during each periodic Texas Performance Review. The comptroller's 2-20 performance review staff shall review and analyze printing 2-21 efficiency during its review of each state agency that conducts 2-22 printing operations. The comptroller shall also make 2-23 recommendations on making state printing operations in general more 2-24 efficient. Texas Performance Review recommendations on state 2-25 printing efficiency shall recommend, when appropriate, the use of 2-26 private, nongovernmental printing vendors. 2-27 SECTION 4. PRINTING SERVICES SUPPLIED BY PRIVATE VENDOR. A 3-1 state agency shall use a private, nongovernmental printing vendor 3-2 when that will result in cost savings to the state. It is the 3-3 policy of this state that all state agency printing be performed by 3-4 a private, nongovernmental printing vendor except when that would 3-5 increase the cost to the state. 3-6 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 3-7 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-12 passage, and it is so enacted.