1-1     By:  Keffer (Senate Sponsor - West)                   H.B. No. 1542
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1542                  By:  Nelson
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to purchasing requirements for school districts and junior
1-11     college districts.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 130.010.  PURCHASING CONTRACTS.  (a)  The provisions of
1-16     Subchapter B, Chapter 44, relating to the purchase of goods and
1-17     services under contract by a school district apply to the purchase
1-18     of goods and services under contract by a junior college district.
1-19           (b)  To the extent of any conflict, the provisions of
1-20     Subchapter B, Chapter 44, prevail over any other law relating to
1-21     the purchase of goods and services by a junior college district.
1-22           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government Code,
1-23     is amended by adding Section 271.023 to read as follows:
1-24           Sec. 271.023.  CONFLICT OF LAWS.  To the extent of any
1-25     conflict, the provisions of Subchapter B, Chapter 44, Education
1-26     Code, relating to the purchase of goods and services under contract
1-27     by a school district prevail over this subchapter.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.
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