By Cook                                                H.B. No. 185
       74R976 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to solicitation of recommendations and proposals from the
    1-3  public by the State Council on Competitive Government regarding the
    1-4  privatization of state services.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 15, State Purchasing and General Services
    1-7  Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-8  adding Section 15.061 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 15.061.  SOLICITATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROPOSALS
   1-10  FROM PUBLIC.  (a)  In performing its duties under this article, the
   1-11  council shall solicit from the public recommendations and proposals
   1-12  regarding state services that may be provided by private commercial
   1-13  sources.
   1-14        (b)  The council shall establish procedures for the efficient
   1-15  solicitation and submission of recommendations and proposals under
   1-16  this section.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.