By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1344
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the authority of the attorney general to contract for
1-2 goods and services subject to taxation as costs in a suit.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3.02, State Purchasing and General
1-5 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 3.02. Limits of Authority. The commission's authority
1-8 does not extend to purchases of supplies, materials, services, or
1-9 equipment:
1-10 (1) for resale;
1-11 (2) for auxiliary enterprises;
1-12 (3) for organized activities relating to instructional
1-13 departments of institutions of higher learning and similar
1-14 activities of other state agencies; <or>
1-15 (4) from gifts or grants, including industrial grants
1-16 or contracts in support of research or federal grants or contracts
1-17 in support of research; or
1-18 (5) for the conduct of any suit, action, or proceeding
1-19 brought or defended by the Office of the Attorney General, when
1-20 such supplies, material, services, or equipment may be taxed as
1-21 costs in such suit, action, or proceeding.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.