By Janek                                              H.B. No. 2021
         76R7115 BDH-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirements for purchasing in school districts
 1-3     that adopt site-based decision-making plans.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 44.031, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
 1-7           (m)  If a purchase is made at the campus level in a school
 1-8     district that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making
 1-9     plan under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, that delegates purchasing
1-10     decisions to the campus level, this section applies only to the
1-11     campus and does not require the district to aggregate and jointly
1-12     award purchasing contracts.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 44.033, Education Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-15           (e)  If a purchase is made at the campus level in a school
1-16     district that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making
1-17     plan under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, that delegates purchasing
1-18     decisions to the campus level, this section applies only to the
1-19     campus and does not require the district to aggregate and jointly
1-20     award purchasing contracts.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.