By: Sibley S.B. No. 1914 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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 (1) "Automated information system" includes: 1-7 (A) the computers on which the information 1-8 system is automated; 1-9 (B) a service related to the automation of the 1-10 system, including computer software, or the computers; and 1-11 (C) a telecommunications apparatus or device 1-12 that serves as a component of a voice, data, or video 1-13 communications network for transmitting, switching, routing, 1-14 multiplexing, modulating, amplifying, or receiving signals on the 1-15 network, and, for the General Services Commission, as 1-16 telecommunications provider for the State, the term includes any 1-17 service provided by a "telecommunications provider", as that term 1-18 is defined in Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, as 1-19 amended. 1-20 (2) "Qualified information systems vendor" means a 1-21 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.