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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