1-1  By:  Park (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                    H.B. No. 305
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 22, 1995;
    1-3  March 23, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the authority of local governments to enter into
   1-10  contracts with other governmental entities for purchases of goods
   1-11  and services.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 791.025, Government Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 791.025.  Contracts for Purchases.  (a)  A local
   1-16  government may agree with another local government or with the
   1-17  state or a state agency, including the State Purchasing and General
   1-18  Services Commission, to purchase goods and services.
   1-19        (b)  A local government that purchases goods and services
   1-20  under this section satisfies the requirement of the local
   1-21  government to seek competitive bids for the purchase of the goods
   1-22  and services.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-28  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-29  passage, and it is so enacted.
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