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.