By:  Sibley                                           S.B. No. 1914

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                                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.