1-1 By: West S.B. No. 618
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 20, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 3, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; March 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: West
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 618, SECTION 1, by deleting the first sentence
1-8 of Subsection (c), Section 1.03, State Purchasing and General
1-9 Services Act (page 1, lines 9-11; committee printing page ,
1-10 lines ), and substituting the following:
1-11 The commission shall prepare a report based on a compilation
1-12 <and analysis> of non-treasury and subcontracting data reports
1-13 submitted to it by each state agency and information provided by
1-14 the comptroller.
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to a report prepared by and information required by the
1-18 General Services Commission under the historically underutilized
1-19 businesses program.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 1.03, State Purchasing
1-22 and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-23 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-24 (c) The commission shall prepare a report based on a
1-25 compilation and analysis of reports submitted to it by each state
1-26 agency and information provided by the comptroller. The report
1-27 shall include for each state agency the total number of
1-28 historically underutilized businesses certified by the commission
1-29 that were paid by the agency or by a contractor under a contract
1-30 with the agency and the dollar amount of payments that were made by
1-31 the agency or by a contractor under a contract with the agency
1-32 <contracts awarded and actually paid> to historically underutilized
1-33 businesses certified by the commission. Not later than September
1-34 15 and March 15 of each year, each state agency shall submit to the
1-35 commission information required by the commission for its
1-36 preparation of the report required by this subsection. The
1-37 commission shall submit a consolidated report on April 15 of each
1-38 year on the previous six-month period to the joint committee
1-39 charged with monitoring the implementation of the historically
1-40 underutilized business goals. The commission shall submit a
1-41 consolidated report on October 15 of each year on the preceding
1-42 fiscal year to the presiding officer of each house of the
1-43 legislature, the members of the legislature and the joint
1-44 committee. The commission may require information from a state
1-45 agency that the commission considers necessary to administer this
1-46 section. The commission may require that information about a state
1-47 agency contract without regard to the source of funds for the
1-48 contract, whether the contract is made by an agency acting under
1-49 delegated purchasing authority or under an exception to the
1-50 commission's purchasing authority, or whether the contract is made
1-51 under the authority of this Act or other law. The commission <and>
1-52 may adopt rules to administer this section. The comptroller shall
1-53 provide information to the commission that will assist the
1-54 commission in the performance of its duties under this section.
1-55 Subsections (d)-(k) of this section apply to the report and
1-56 information required under this section.
1-57 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-58 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-59 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-60 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-61 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-62 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-63 passage, and it is so enacted.
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