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         By Ramsay                                             H.B. No. 2662
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2662:
         By Farabee                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2662
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the functions of certain county purchasing agents.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 262.0115(d), Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  Under the supervision of the commissioners court, the
 1-7     purchasing agent shall carry out the functions prescribed by law
 1-8     for a purchasing agent under Section 262.011 and for the county
 1-9     auditor in regard to county purchases and contracts and shall
1-10     administer the procedures prescribed by law for notice and public
1-11     bidding for county purchases and contracts.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.