By Madla S.B. No. 1032 76R6448 SMJ-F 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 the county auditor in regard to county purchases and contracts, 1-9 or a function prescribed by an order of the commissioners court or 1-10 by Section 262.011, and shall administer the procedures prescribed 1-11 by law for notice and public bidding for county purchases and 1-12 contracts. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.