BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 3116

By: Cook

State Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties recommend that the state should establish a more coordinated system for ordering and purchasing. These parties note that purchasing is currently one of the aspects of state finance that can be improved with the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system and consider it appropriate to include the administration of state agency purchasing in the definition of the term. The parties further note that a consistent source of funding for adding agencies to the statewide enterprise resource planning system would benefit all agencies, especially small and medium-sized agencies with limited funding. H.B. 3116 seeks to accomplish these goals.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 3116 amends the Government Code to include in the definition of "enterprise resource planning" under provisions relating to state accounting procedures the administration of a state agency's purchasing. The bill authorizes the comptroller of public accounts to recover the cost of implementation of any component of the uniform statewide accounting project from a vendor that uses the purchasing system operated by the Texas Facilities Commission.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2013.