1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to purchasing requirements for school districts and junior 1-3 college districts. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 130.010. PURCHASING CONTRACTS. (a) The provisions of 1-8 Subchapter B, Chapter 44, relating to the purchase of goods and 1-9 services under contract by a school district apply to the purchase 1-10 of goods and services under contract by a junior college district. 1-11 (b) To the extent of any conflict, the provisions of 1-12 Subchapter B, Chapter 44, prevail over any other law relating to 1-13 the purchase of goods and services by a junior college district. 1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code, 1-15 is amended by adding Section 271.023 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 271.023. CONFLICT OF LAWS. To the extent of any 1-17 conflict, the provisions of Subchapter B, Chapter 44, Education 1-18 Code, relating to the purchase of goods and services under contract 1-19 by a school district prevail over this subchapter. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1542 was passed by the House on May 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1542 on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1542 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor