By Raymond                                            H.B. No. 2966
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the attorney general to contract for
    1-3  goods and services subject to taxation as costs in a suit.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3.02, Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-6  Statutes, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 3.02.  Limits of Authority.  The commission's authority
    1-8  does not extend to purchases of suppies, materials, services, or
    1-9  equipment:
   1-10              (1)  for resale;
   1-11              (2)  for auxiliary enterprises;
   1-12              (3)  for organized activities relating to instructional
   1-13  departments of institutions of higher learning and similar
   1-14  activities of other state agencies; <or>
   1-15              (4)  from gifts or grants, including industrial grants
   1-16  or contracts in support of research or federal grants or contracts
   1-17  in support of research; or
   1-18              (5)  for the conduct of any suit, action, or proceeding
   1-19  brought or defended by the Office of the Attorney General, when
   1-20  such supplies, material, services, or equipment may be taxed as
   1-21  costs in such suit, action, or proceeding.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect on
   1-23  September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-2  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and it is so enacted.