By Janek                                        H.B. No. 2893

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the requirements for purchasing in school districts

 1-3     that adopt site-based decision-making plans.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 44.031, Education Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:

 1-7           (m)  For those purchases made at the campus level in a school

 1-8     district that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making

 1-9     plan pursuant to Subchapter F of Chapter 11 of this code that

1-10     decentralizes such purchases to the campus, the provisions of this

1-11     section apply to the campus and do not require the district to

1-12     aggregate and jointly award such contracts.

1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 44.033, Education Code, is amended by

1-14     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-15           (e)  For those purchases made at the campus level in a school

1-16     district that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making

1-17     plan pursuant to Subchapter F of Chapter 11 of this code that

1-18     decentralizes such purchases to the campus, the provisions of this

1-19     section apply to the campus and do not require the district to

1-20     aggregate and jointly award such contracts.

1-21           SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

1-22     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.