By Gallego H.B. No. 2089
74R6188 JSA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of surplus or salvage property by a
1-3 public institution of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 9.14, State Purchasing and General
1-6 Services Act (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 9.14. AUTHORIZATION OF AGENCIES TO DISPOSE OF PROPERTY.
1-9 The commission may authorize an agency to dispose of surplus or
1-10 salvage property where the agency demonstrates to the commission
1-11 its ability to make such disposition under the rules and
1-12 regulations set up by the commission, as provided for herein.
1-13 State eleemosynary institutions <and institutions and agencies of
1-14 higher learning> shall be excepted from the terms of this article
1-15 that relate to the disposition of their surplus or salvage
1-16 property. State institutions and agencies of higher learning shall
1-17 be excepted from the terms of this article that relate to the
1-18 disposition of their surplus or salvage property that is purchased
1-19 with local funds or institutional funds as those terms are defined
1-20 by Section 51.009, Education Code.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.