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.