By: Sibley S.B. No. 1914
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the provision of telecommunications services by the
1-2 General Services Commission.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2157.001, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 2157.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
1-7 (1) "Automated information system" includes:
1-8 (A) the computers on which the information
1-9 system is automated;
1-10 (B) a service related to the automation of the
1-11 system, including computer software, or the computers; [and]
1-12 (C) a telecommunications apparatus or device
1-13 that serves as a component of a voice, data, or video
1-14 communications network for transmitting, switching, routing,
1-15 multiplexing, modulating, amplifying, or receiving signals on the
1-16 network; and
1-17 (D) for the General Services Commission, as
1-18 telecommunications provider for the State, the term includes any
1-19 service provided by a telecommunications provider, as that term is
1-20 defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1995 (Article
1-21 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-22 (2) "Qualified information systems vendor" means a
1-23 manufacturer or reseller of an automated information system who is
2-1 authorized by the commission to publish a catalogue of products and
2-2 services that may be directly purchased by a state agency.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-4 SECTION 3. 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.