By Park                                                H.B. No. 305
       74R1956 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of local governments to enter into
    1-3  contracts with other governmental entities for purchases of goods
    1-4  and services.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 791.025, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 791.025.  Contracts for Purchases.  (a)  A local
    1-9  government may agree with another local government or with the
   1-10  state or a state agency, including the State Purchasing and General
   1-11  Services Commission, to purchase goods and services.
   1-12        (b)  A local government that purchases goods and services
   1-13  under this section satisfies any state law requiring the local
   1-14  government to seek competitive bids for the purchase of the goods
   1-15  and services.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.
   1-23                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   1-24        Amend H.B. 305 as follows:
    2-1        (1)  On page 1, line 13, strike "any state law requiring" and
    2-2  insert "the requirement of"
    2-3                                                               Chisum