By: Patterson S.B. No. 863
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to precommitment approval for certain purchases of a port
1-2 authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 60.403, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 Sec. 60.403. CONTRACTS: PURCHASES. (a) A port commission
1-7 or authorized designated officer of the port commission may make
1-8 routine purchases or contracts in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
1-9 (b) Before a purchase is made, a purchase order or other
1-10 form of precommitment approval must be signed by the executive
1-11 director of the district or the port authority or the authorized
1-12 designated officer. For routine contracts or purchases, the
1-13 precommitment approval may be in the form of a list of approved
1-14 routine purchases or contracts signed by the executive director.
1-15 The signed list shall remain on file in the offices of the district
1-16 or port authority.
1-17 (c) A [The] purchase order must be executed in duplicate
1-18 with one copy delivered to the person from whom the purchase is
1-19 made and one copy remaining on file in the district or port
1-20 authority.
1-21 (d) If any other type of purchase of the district or port
1-22 authority is subject to the approval of a county auditor, the list
1-23 of routine purchases or contracts must be approved by the county
2-1 auditor before the purchases or contracts may be made.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-3 applies only to a purchase made on or after the effective date of
2-4 this Act.
2-5 SECTION 3. 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.