1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 863
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 28, 1997; March 5, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 24, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lindsay
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 863 by adding Subsection (d) after Subsection (c) as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (d) If any other type of purchase of the district or port
1-10 authority is subject to the approval of a county auditor, the list
1-11 of routine purchases or contracts must be approved by the county
1-12 auditor before the purchases or contracts may be made.
1-13 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-14 AN ACT
1-15 relating to precommitment approval for certain purchases of a port
1-16 authority.
1-17 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-18 SECTION 1. Section 60.403, Water Code, is amended to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 Sec. 60.403. CONTRACTS: PURCHASES. (a) A port commission
1-21 or authorized designated officer of the port commission may make
1-22 routine purchases or contracts in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
1-23 (b) Before a purchase is made, a purchase order or other
1-24 form of precommitment approval must be signed by the executive
1-25 director of the district or the port authority or the authorized
1-26 designated officer. For routine contracts or purchases, the
1-27 precommitment approval may be in the form of a list of approved
1-28 routine purchases or contracts signed by the executive director.
1-29 The signed list shall remain on file in the offices of the district
1-30 or port authority.
1-31 (c) A [The] purchase order must be executed in duplicate
1-32 with one copy delivered to the person from whom the purchase is
1-33 made and one copy remaining on file in the district or port
1-34 authority.
1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-36 applies only to a purchase made on or after the effective date of
1-37 this Act.
1-38 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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