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Senate Bill 943 |
Senate Author: Watson et al. |
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Effective: 1-1-20 |
House Sponsor: Capriglione et al. |
Senate Bill 943 amends the Government Code to make government contracting information public and require its disclosure. The bill sets out certain exceptions to and exemptions from disclosure, including for proprietary information and trade secrets. The bill, among other provisions, requires a governmental body that receives a request for contracting information that is in the custody or possession of the contracted entity and not maintained by the governmental body to ask that the entity provide the information to the governmental body. The bill authorizes a governmental body to terminate a contract for an entity's noncompliance with the bill's provisions.