By West S.B. No. 618
74R5396 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a report prepared by and information required by the
1-3 General Services Commission under the historically underutilized
1-4 businesses program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 1.03(c), State Purchasing and General
1-7 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-8 amended to read as follows:
1-9 (c) The commission shall prepare a report based on a
1-10 compilation and analysis of reports submitted to it by each state
1-11 agency and information provided by the comptroller. The report
1-12 shall include for each state agency the total number of
1-13 historically underutilized businesses certified by the commission
1-14 that were paid by the agency or by a contractor under a contract
1-15 with the agency and the dollar amount of payments that were made by
1-16 the agency or by a contractor under a contract with the agency
1-17 <contracts awarded and actually paid> to historically underutilized
1-18 businesses certified by the commission. Not later than September
1-19 15 and March 15 of each year, each state agency shall submit to the
1-20 commission information required by the commission for its
1-21 preparation of the report required by this subsection. The
1-22 commission shall submit a consolidated report on April 15 of each
1-23 year on the previous six-month period to the joint committee
1-24 charged with monitoring the implementation of the historically
2-1 underutilized business goals. The commission shall submit a
2-2 consolidated report on October 15 of each year on the preceding
2-3 fiscal year to the presiding officer of each house of the
2-4 legislature, the members of the legislature and the joint
2-5 committee. The commission may require information from a state
2-6 agency that the commission considers necessary to administer this
2-7 section. The commission may require that information about a state
2-8 agency contract without regard to the source of funds for the
2-9 contract, whether the contract is made by an agency acting under
2-10 delegated purchasing authority or under an exception to the
2-11 commission's purchasing authority, or whether the contract is made
2-12 under the authority of this Act or other law. The commission <and>
2-13 may adopt rules to administer this section. The comptroller shall
2-14 provide information to the commission that will assist the
2-15 commission in the performance of its duties under this section.
2-16 Subsections (d)-(k) of this section apply to the report and
2-17 information required under this section.
2-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.