By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1619 77R7625 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing county purchasing agents to establish a 1-3 county purchasing card program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 262.011(l) and (o), Local Government 1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows: 1-7 (l) The county purchasing agent may have assistants to aid 1-8 in the performance of the agent's duties. A person who is 1-9 authorized by the county purchasing agent to use a county 1-10 purchasing card while making a county purchase is considered an 1-11 assistant of the county purchasing agent to the extent the person 1-12 complies with the rules and procedures prescribed for the use of 1-13 county purchasing cards as adopted by the county purchasing agent 1-14 under Subsection (o). The county purchasing agent and assistants 1-15 may have any help, equipment, supplies, and traveling expenses that 1-16 are approved and considered advisable by the board that appointed 1-17 the agent. 1-18 (o) The county purchasing agent shall adopt the rules and 1-19 procedures necessary to implement the agent's duties under this 1-20 section subject to approval by the commissioners court. 1-21 Notwithstanding Subsection (f) or other law, rules and procedures 1-22 adopted under this subsection may include rules and procedures for 1-23 persons to use county purchasing cards to pay for county purchases 1-24 under the direction and supervision of the county purchasing agent. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-2 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-3 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-4 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-5 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.