BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 2626
80R13007 CAE-F By: Murphy (Janek)
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Under current law, a school district with an average daily attendance of 190,000 or more that has a site-based decision making plan and that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus level, is not required to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts. A district that adopts site-based purchasing must adopt a policy to ensure that campus purchases achieve the best value to the district and are not intended or used to avoid the requirement that a district aggregate purchases. Due to declining average daily attendance, a district may not be able to continue to avail itself of these provisions of law, which allow for more efficient procurement methods.
H.B. 2626 provides that a school district is not required to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts if a purchase is made at the campus level in a school district with a student enrollment of 180,000, rather 190,000 average daily attendance, that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making plan and that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus level.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 44.031(m), Education Code, to provide that this section applies only to a campus and does not require the school district to aggregate and jointly award purchasing contracts if a purchase is made at the campus level with a student enrollment of 180,000 or more, rather than an average daily attendance of 190,000 as determined under Section 42.005 (Average Daily Attendance), that has formally adopted a site-based decision-making plan under Subchapter F (District-Level And Site-Based Decision-Making), Chapter 11, that delegates purchasing decisions to the campus level.
SECTION 2. Amends Section 44.033(e), Education Code, to make conforming changes.
SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2007.