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.
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             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.
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                                                 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.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor