By: Seliger  S.B. No. 1393
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2011; March 22, 2011, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; April 14, 2011, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 14, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the use of contracts by local governments to purchase
  electricity.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (8), Section 271.003, Local
  Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (8)  "Personal property" includes appliances,
  equipment, facilities, and furnishings, or an interest in personal
  property, whether movable or fixed, considered by the governing
  body of the governmental agency to be necessary, useful, or
  appropriate to one or more purposes of the governmental agency. The
  term includes all materials and labor incident to the installation
  of that personal property.  The term includes electricity.  The term
  does not include real property.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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