1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 1363 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 1999, 1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 16, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1363 By: Nelson A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the acquisition of library materials by a junior 1-9 college district. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 130.010 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 130.010. ACQUISITION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS. (a) In this 1-14 section, "library goods and services" means: 1-15 (1) serial and journal subscriptions; 1-16 (2) other library materials, including books; 1-17 (3) library services, including binding services; and 1-18 (4) library equipment and supplies. 1-19 (b) Notwithstanding any other law governing purchasing by a 1-20 junior college district, a junior college district may acquire 1-21 library goods and services in any manner authorized by law for the 1-22 acquisition of library goods and services by a public senior 1-23 college or university, as defined by Section 61.003. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *