1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 630
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2001; February 12, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 2, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
 1-6     April 2, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 630                  By:  Lindsay
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to authorizing county purchasing agents to establish a
1-11     county purchasing card program.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsections (l) and (o), Section 262.011, Local
1-14     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-15           (l)  The county purchasing agent may have assistants to aid
1-16     in the performance of the agent's duties.  A person who is
1-17     authorized by the county purchasing agent to use a county
1-18     purchasing card while making a county purchase is considered an
1-19     assistant of the county purchasing agent to the extent the person
1-20     complies with the rules and procedures prescribed for the use of
1-21     county purchasing cards as adopted by the county purchasing agent
1-22     under Subsection (o).  The county purchasing agent and assistants
1-23     may have any help, equipment, supplies, and traveling expenses that
1-24     are approved and considered advisable by the board that appointed
1-25     the agent.
1-26           (o)  The county purchasing agent shall adopt the rules and
1-27     procedures necessary to implement the agent's duties under this
1-28     section subject to approval by the commissioners court.
1-29     Notwithstanding Subsection (f) or other law, rules and procedures
1-30     adopted under this subsection may include rules and procedures for
1-31     persons to use county purchasing cards to pay for county purchases
1-32     under the direction and supervision of the county purchasing agent.
1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-34     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-35     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-36     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-37     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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