73R6226 JRD-D
          By Delisi                                              H.B. No. 829
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 829:
          By Danburg                                         C.S.H.B. No. 829
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring a report from state agencies about certain
    1-3  purchasing contracts awarded to nonresident bidders or nonresident
    1-4  subcontractors.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 2, State Purchasing and General Services
    1-7  Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-8  adding Section 2.081 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 2.081.  REPORTS ON NONRESIDENT BIDDERS.  (a)  In this
   1-10  section, "nonresident bidder" means a bidder who does not maintain
   1-11  a permanently staffed full-time office in this state.
   1-12        (b)  During January and July of each year, a state agency
   1-13  shall file with the presiding officer of each house of the
   1-14  legislature and the presiding officers of the house appropriations
   1-15  committee and the senate finance committee a report that identifies
   1-16  each nonresident bidder to whom the agency awarded a contract with
   1-17  a value of $25,000 or more for the purchase of supplies, materials,
   1-18  services, or equipment during the six calendar months preceding the
   1-19  month in which the report is filed, if the agency awarded such a
   1-20  contract during the reporting period.
   1-21        (c)  A contractor to whom a state agency has awarded a
   1-22  contract shall report to the agency the identity of each
   1-23  nonresident bidder to whom the contractor has awarded a subcontract
   1-24  with a value of $25,000 or more, under the state contract, for the
    2-1  purchase of supplies, materials, services, or equipment.  The state
    2-2  agency shall report that information in the manner prescribed by
    2-3  Subsection (b) for contracts awarded by the agency.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.