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.