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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