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 with an average daily attendance of 190,000 or more as
 1-9     determined under Section 42.005 that has formally adopted a
1-10     site-based decision-making plan under Subchapter F, Chapter 11,
1-11     that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus level, this
1-12     section applies only to the campus and does not require the
1-13     district to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts.  A
1-14     district that adopts site-based purchasing under this subsection
1-15     shall adopt a policy to ensure that campus purchases achieve the
1-16     best value to the district and are not intended or used to avoid
1-17     the requirement that a district aggregate purchases under
1-18     Subsection (a).
1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 44.033, Education Code, is amended by
1-20     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-21           (e)  If a purchase is made at the campus level in a school
1-22     district with an average daily attendance of 190,000 or more as
1-23     determined under Section 42.005 that has formally adopted a
1-24     site-based decision-making plan under Subchapter F, Chapter 11,
 2-1     that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus level, this
 2-2     section applies only to the campus and does not require the
 2-3     district to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts.  A
 2-4     district that adopts site-based purchasing under this subsection
 2-5     shall adopt a policy to ensure that campus purchases achieve the
 2-6     best value to the district and are not intended or used to avoid
 2-7     the requirement that a district aggregate purchases under
 2-8     Subsection (a).
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2021 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. 2021 on May 20, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0,
         1 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2021 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 18, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor