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. 1-38 * * * * *