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Senate Bill 1765 |
Senate Author: Watson |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
House Sponsor: Martinez Fischer |
Senate Bill 1765 amends the Local Government Code to raise the maximum value of a contract that may be entered into by a municipality without competitive bidding from $25,000 to $50,000. The bill requires a municipality, when making an expenditure of more than $3,000 but less than $50,000, rather than $25,000, to contact at least two historically underutilized businesses on a rotating basis. The bill also adds expenditures for advertising, other than legal notices, to the list of expenditures not subject to provisions of the Local Government Code governing the purchasing and contracting authority of municipalities.