Bill Text: TX HB3342 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to interstate compacts and cooperative agreements relating to state purchasing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3342-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3342 | ||
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| relating to interstate compacts and cooperative agreements | ||
| relating to state purchasing. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2156.181, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
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| (a) The commission may enter into one or more compacts, | ||
| interagency agreements, or cooperative purchasing agreements | ||
| directly with one or more state governments, agencies of other | ||
| states, or other governmental entities or may participate in, | ||
| sponsor, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement through | ||
| an entity that facilitates those agreements for the purchase of | ||
| goods or services if the commission determines that the [ |
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| (a-1) A compact or agreement described by this section may | ||
| not be used to purchase services that are defined as part of the | ||
| practice of engineering under Section 1001.003, Occupations Code, | ||
| or architecture under Section 1051.001, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3342 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3342 on May 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 6, | ||
| 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3342 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
