1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 1914
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 27, 1997; April 2, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 24, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the provision of telecommunications services by the
1-9 General Services Commission.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2157.001, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 2157.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
1-14 (1) "Automated information system" includes:
1-15 (A) the computers on which the information
1-16 system is automated;
1-17 (B) a service related to the automation of the
1-18 system, including computer software, or the computers; [and]
1-19 (C) a telecommunications apparatus or device
1-20 that serves as a component of a voice, data, or video
1-21 communications network for transmitting, switching, routing,
1-22 multiplexing, modulating, amplifying, or receiving signals on the
1-23 network; and
1-24 (D) for the General Services Commission, as
1-25 telecommunications provider for the State, the term includes any
1-26 service provided by a telecommunications provider, as that term is
1-27 defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1995 (Article
1-28 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-29 (2) "Qualified information systems vendor" means a
1-30 manufacturer or reseller of an automated information system who is
1-31 authorized by the commission to publish a catalogue of products and
1-32 services that may be directly purchased by a state agency.
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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