By Harris S.B. No. 1363 76R5218 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the acquisition of library materials by a junior 1-3 college district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 130.010. ACQUISITION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS. (a) In this 1-8 section, "library goods and services" means: 1-9 (1) serial and journal subscriptions; 1-10 (2) other library materials, including books; 1-11 (3) library services, including binding services; and 1-12 (4) library equipment and supplies. 1-13 (b) Notwithstanding any other law governing purchasing by a 1-14 junior college district, a junior college district may acquire 1-15 library goods and services in the manner the district considers 1-16 most efficient for the type of item acquired. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.