1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 67
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 February 26, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 7, Nays 0; February 26, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to purchasing procedures used by the institutional
1-9 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 496.051, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 496.051. PURCHASING PROCEDURES. [(a)] The department
1-14 shall comply with any special purchasing procedures requiring
1-15 competitive review under the State Purchasing and General Services
1-16 Act (Subtitle D, Title 10) [(Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-17 Statutes)].
1-18 [(b) The board may authorize the executive director to adopt
1-19 policies allowing the institutional division to purchase directly
1-20 or at public auction livestock, agricultural commodities,
1-21 agricultural or industrial equipment, supplies, and raw materials
1-22 for agricultural or industrial production, breeding, consumption,
1-23 or resale, if the division determines that the purchase is
1-24 economically feasible and advantageous to the division. The State
1-25 Purchasing and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas
1-26 Civil Statutes) does not apply to purchases made under this
1-27 subsection. The institutional division shall notify the General
1-28 Services Commission as soon as practicable of a purchase made under
1-29 this subsection and the purchase price.]
1-30 [(c) To carry out Subsection (b), the industry and
1-31 agricultural fund is created. The fund must be deposited in a
1-32 local bank. The fund may be expended only for purchases under
1-33 Subsection (b). Unexpended balances of the fund must be carried
1-34 forward from fiscal year to fiscal year.]
1-35 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41 passage, and it is so enacted.
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