85R2562 JCG-D By: Price H.B. No. 1883 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the disposition of certain state surplus or salvage data processing equipment. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Sections 2175.905(a), (b), and (c), Government Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) If a disposition of a state agency's surplus or salvage data processing equipment is not made under Section 2175.184, the state agency shall transfer the equipment to: (1) a school district or open-enrollment charter school in this state under Subchapter C, Chapter 32, Education Code; (2) an assistance organization specified by the school district; [or] (3) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; or (4) Texas CASA for use in a foster home or foster group home. (b) If a disposition of the surplus or salvage data processing equipment of a state eleemosynary institution or an institution or agency of higher education is not made under other law, the institution or agency shall transfer the equipment to: (1) a school district or open-enrollment charter school in this state under Subchapter C, Chapter 32, Education Code; (2) an assistance organization specified by the school district; [or] (3) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; or (4) Texas CASA for use in a foster home or foster group home. (c) The state eleemosynary institution or institution or agency of higher education or other state agency may not collect a fee or other reimbursement from the district, the school, the assistance organization, [or] the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or Texas CASA for the surplus or salvage data processing equipment transferred under this section. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.