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, Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-5  Statutes, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 3.02.  Limits of Authority.  The commission's authority
    1-7  does not extend to purchases of supplies, materials, services, or
    1-8  equipment:
    1-9              (1)  for resale;
   1-10              (2)  for auxiliary enterprises;
   1-11              (3)  for organized activities relating to instructional
   1-12  departments of institutions of higher learning and similar
   1-13  activities of other state agencies; <or>
   1-14              (4)  from gifts or grants, including industrial grants
   1-15  or contracts in support of research or federal grants or contracts
   1-16  in support of research; or
   1-17              (5)  for the conduct of any suit, action, or proceeding
   1-18  brought or defended by the Office of the Attorney General, when
   1-19  such supplies, material, services, or equipment may be taxed as
   1-20  costs in such suit, action, or proceeding.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect on
   1-22  September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-1  and the 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,
    2-5  and it is so enacted.