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.