1-1 By: West, et al. S.B. No. 189
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 11, 1995; January 18, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 February 6, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0;
1-6 February 6, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 189 By: West
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the certification of historically underutilized
1-11 businesses by the General Services Commission.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 1.03, State Purchasing
1-14 and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-15 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-16 (a) The commission shall certify businesses that are
1-17 historically underutilized businesses. As part of its
1-18 certification procedures, the commission may approve another
1-19 certification <a municipal> program that certifies historically
1-20 underutilized businesses under substantially the same definition
1-21 prescribed by Section 1.02(3) of this Act, and municipalities may
1-22 adopt the commission's certification program <certify businesses
1-23 certified by the municipality as historically underutilized
1-24 businesses under this Act>.
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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