This website will be unavailable from Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.

	
Amend CSHB 1516 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered section to Article 1 of the bill and renumbering 
subsequent sections of Article 1 accordingly:
	SECTION 1._____.  Subchapter B, Chapter 2170, Government 
Code, is amended by adding Section 2170.061 to read as follows:
	Sec. 2170.061.  ACQUISITION WITHOUT COMPETITIVE BID; USE OF 
CERTAIN DISASTER-RELATED NETWORK AND STATEWIDE TECHNOLOGY CENTERS.  
(a)  In this section, "network" means the Lonestar Education and 
Research Network or its successor.
	(b)  The department may acquire telecommunications services 
from the network without competitive bids for a purpose described 
by this section.
	(c)  The department may use the network only as provided by 
this section.
	(d)  During an emergency, including a single node failure or 
a system-wide failure of the consolidated telecommunications 
system established under this chapter, the department may divert 
telecommunications services traffic to the network to avoid service 
interruption.  After resolution of the emergency and on a 
determination that the consolidated telecommunications system is 
operational, the telecommunications services traffic must be 
diverted back to the consolidated telecommunications system.
	(e)  The department may also use the network to transfer data 
that is not time sensitive to or from a statewide technology center 
established and operated by the department under Subchapter L, 
Chapter 2054.

	
Amendment No. 4 was adopted.