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.