1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 379
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 4, 1997; April 8, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 21, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the disposition and sale of certain surplus and salvage
1-9 property by the state.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2175, Government Code, is
1-12 amended by adding Section 2175.066 to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 2175.066. DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT. (a) The
1-14 commission and the comptroller shall develop general guidelines for
1-15 establishing the fair market value of surplus and salvage data
1-16 processing equipment. A state agency shall use the guidelines to
1-17 determine the fair market value of specific data processing
1-18 equipment.
1-19 (b) If an item of surplus or salvage data processing
1-20 equipment is not transferred under Subchapter C, the item may not
1-21 be sold under Subchapter D for an amount that is less than 50
1-22 percent of the fair market value of the item as determined under
1-23 Subsection (a).
1-24 (c) The commission shall prescribe procedures for the
1-25 disposition of an item of data processing equipment that is not
1-26 transferred or sold under this chapter, including procedures for
1-27 the repair and refurbishment of an item or the disassembly and sale
1-28 of the item's component parts.
1-29 (d) For purposes of this section, "data processing
1-30 equipment" means equipment described by Section 2054.003(3)(A).
1-31 SECTION 2. Section 2175.302, Government Code, is amended to
1-32 read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 2175.302. EXCEPTION FOR ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS AND
1-34 INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Except for Section
1-35 2175.066, this [This] chapter does not apply to the disposition of
1-36 surplus or salvage property by a state eleemosynary institution or
1-37 an institution or agency of higher education.
1-38 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-39 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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