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.
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