By Craddick H.B. No. 1475
74R4941 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to counties authorized to employ a purchasing agent.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 262.0115, Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 262.0115. PURCHASING AGENTS IN COUNTIES WITH POPULATION
1-7 OF MORE THAN 100,000 <125,000>. (a) In a county with a population
1-8 of more than 100,000 <125,000>, the commissioners court may employ
1-9 a person to act as county purchasing agent. However, this section
1-10 does not apply to a county that has appointed a purchasing agent
1-11 under Section 262.011 and that has not abolished the position as
1-12 authorized by law.
1-13 (b) A purchasing agent employed under this section serves at
1-14 the pleasure of the commissioners court.
1-15 (c) The commissioners court may employ other persons
1-16 necessary to assist the purchasing agent in performing the agent's
1-17 functions.
1-18 (d) Under the supervision of the commissioners court, the
1-19 purchasing agent shall carry out the functions prescribed by law
1-20 for the county auditor in regard to county purchases and contracts
1-21 and shall administer the procedures prescribed by law for notice
1-22 and public bidding for county purchases and contracts.
1-23 (e) A county that has established the position of county
1-24 purchasing agent under this section may abolish the position at any
2-1 time. On the abolition of the position, the county auditor shall
2-2 assume the functions previously performed by the purchasing agent.
2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.