1-1     By:  Gallegos                                          S.B. No. 395

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 1997; February 4, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 7, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-6     April 7, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 395                 By:  Gallegos

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to parties authorized to enter into interlocal cooperation

1-11     contracts.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 791.025, Government Code, is amended to

1-14     read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 791.025.  CONTRACTS FOR PURCHASES.  (a)  A local

1-16     government, including a council of governments, may agree with

1-17     another local government or with the state or a state agency,

1-18     including the [State Purchasing and] General Services Commission,

1-19     to purchase goods and services.

1-20           (b)  A local government, including a council of governments,

1-21     may agree with another local government, including a nonprofit

1-22     corporation that is created and operated to provide one or more

1-23     governmental functions and services, or with the state or a state

1-24     agency, including the General Services Commission, to purchase

1-25     goods and any services reasonably required for the installation,

1-26     operation, or maintenance of the goods.  This subsection does not

1-27     apply to services provided by firefighters, police officers, or

1-28     emergency medical personnel.

1-29           (c)  A local government that purchases goods and services

1-30     under this section satisfies the requirement of the local

1-31     government to seek competitive bids for the purchase of the goods

1-32     and services.

1-33           (d)  In this section, "council of governments" means a

1-34     regional planning commission created under Chapter 391, Local

1-35     Government Code.

1-36           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.

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