AN ACT
1-1 relating to purchasing procedures used by the institutional
1-2 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 496.051, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 496.051. PURCHASING PROCEDURES. [(a)] The department
1-7 shall comply with any special purchasing procedures requiring
1-8 competitive review under the State Purchasing and General Services
1-9 Act (Subtitle D, Title 10) [(Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-10 Statutes)].
1-11 [(b) The board may authorize the executive director to adopt
1-12 policies allowing the institutional division to purchase directly
1-13 or at public auction livestock, agricultural commodities,
1-14 agricultural or industrial equipment, supplies, and raw materials
1-15 for agricultural or industrial production, breeding, consumption,
1-16 or resale, if the division determines that the purchase is
1-17 economically feasible and advantageous to the division. The State
1-18 Purchasing and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas
1-19 Civil Statutes) does not apply to purchases made under this
1-20 subsection. The institutional division shall notify the General
1-21 Services Commission as soon as practicable of a purchase made under
1-22 this subsection and the purchase price.]
1-23 [(c) To carry out Subsection (b), the industry and
2-1 agricultural fund is created. The fund must be deposited in a
2-2 local bank. The fund may be expended only for purchases under
2-3 Subsection (b). Unexpended balances of the fund must be carried
2-4 forward from fiscal year to fiscal year.]
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 67 passed the Senate on
March 5, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 67 passed the House on
May 13, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor