1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1344
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the authority of the attorney general to contract for
1-9 goods and services subject to taxation as costs in a suit.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 3.02, State Purchasing and General
1-12 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 3.02. Limits of Authority. The commission's authority
1-15 does not extend to purchases of supplies, materials, services, or
1-16 equipment:
1-17 (1) for resale;
1-18 (2) for auxiliary enterprises;
1-19 (3) for organized activities relating to instructional
1-20 departments of institutions of higher learning and similar
1-21 activities of other state agencies; <or>
1-22 (4) from gifts or grants, including industrial grants
1-23 or contracts in support of research or federal grants or contracts
1-24 in support of research; or
1-25 (5) for the conduct of any suit, action, or proceeding
1-26 brought or defended by the Office of the Attorney General, when
1-27 such supplies, material, services, or equipment may be taxed as
1-28 costs in such suit, action, or proceeding.
1-29 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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