By Lucio S.B. No. 525 74R3601 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to purchases of agricultural products by school districts 1-3 and institutions of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.940. PURCHASE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. A school 1-8 district that purchases agricultural products shall give first 1-9 preference to products grown in Texas and second preference to 1-10 products offered by Texas bidders, the cost to the district and 1-11 quality being equal. 1-12 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 51.940 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 51.940. PURCHASE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. An 1-15 institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, that 1-16 purchases agricultural products shall give first preference to 1-17 products grown in Texas and second preference to products offered 1-18 by Texas bidders, the cost to the institution and quality being 1-19 equal. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.