1-1     By:  Janek (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay)                 H.B. No. 2021
 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 8, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2021                 By:  Ratliff
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the requirements for purchasing in school districts
1-11     that adopt site-based decision-making plans.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 44.031, Education Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
1-15           (m)  If a purchase is made at the campus level in a school
1-16     district with an average daily attendance of 190,000 or more as
1-17     determined under Section 42.005, Education Code, that has formally
1-18     adopted a site-based decision-making plan under Subchapter F,
1-19     Chapter 11, that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus
1-20     level, this section applies only to the campus and does not require
1-21     the district to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts.
1-22           SECTION 2.  Section 44.033, Education Code, is amended by
1-23     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-24           (e)  If a purchase is made at the campus level in a school
1-25     district with an average daily attendance of 190,000 or more as
1-26     determined under Section 42.005, Education Code, that has formally
1-27     adopted a site-based decision-making plan under Subchapter F,
1-28     Chapter 11, that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus
1-29     level, this section applies only to the campus and does not require
1-30     the district to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37     passage, and it is so enacted.
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