1-1     By:  Ramsay (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                  H.B. No. 2662
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the functions of certain county purchasing agents.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 262.0115(d), Local Government Code, is
1-11     amended to read as follows:
1-12           (d)  Under the supervision of the commissioners court, the
1-13     purchasing agent shall carry out the functions prescribed by law
1-14     for a purchasing agent under Section 262.011 and for the county
1-15     auditor in regard to county purchases and contracts and shall
1-16     administer the procedures prescribed by law for notice and public
1-17     bidding for county purchases and contracts.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.
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