By:  Gallegos                                          S.B. No. 395

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to parties authorized to enter into interlocal cooperation

 1-2     contracts.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 791.025, Government Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 791.025.  CONTRACTS FOR PURCHASES.  (a)  A local

 1-7     government, including a council of governments, may agree with

 1-8     another local government or with the state or a state agency,

 1-9     including the [State Purchasing and] General Services Commission,

1-10     to purchase goods and services.

1-11           (b)  A local government, including a council of governments,

1-12     may agree with another local government, including a nonprofit

1-13     corporation that is created and operated to provide one or more

1-14     governmental functions and services, or with the state or a state

1-15     agency, including the General Services Commission, to purchase

1-16     goods and any services reasonably required for the installation,

1-17     operation, or maintenance of the goods.  This subsection does not

1-18     apply to services provided by firefighters, police officers, or

1-19     emergency medical personnel.

1-20           (c)  A local government that purchases goods and services

1-21     under this section satisfies the requirement of the local

1-22     government to seek competitive bids for the purchase of the goods

1-23     and services.

 2-1           (d)  In this section, "council of governments" means a

 2-2     regional planning commission created under Chapter 391, Local

 2-3     Government Code.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.