By Turner of Harris                             H.B. No. 1669

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to exempting certain entities that perform cooperative

 1-3     purchasing for local governments from competitive bidding

 1-4     requirements.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 271.102, Local Government Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  A nonprofit organization that functions as a local

 1-9     cooperative organization and makes purchases for local governments

1-10     under a cooperative purchasing program and serves as an educational

1-11     resource for local governments on procurement and development of

1-12     technology is exempt from state law requiring local governments to

1-13     seek competitive bids for the purchase of goods or services.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.