1-1 By: Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Sibley) H.B. No. 829
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to requiring a report from state agencies about certain
1-24 purchasing contracts awarded to nonresident bidders or nonresident
1-25 subcontractors.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Article 2, State Purchasing and General Services
1-28 Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-29 adding Section 2.081 to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 2.081. REPORTS ON NONRESIDENT BIDDERS. (a) In this
1-31 section, "nonresident bidder" means a bidder who does not maintain
1-32 a permanently staffed full-time office in this state.
1-33 (b) During January and July of each year, a state agency
1-34 shall file with the presiding officer of each house of the
1-35 legislature and the presiding officers of the house appropriations
1-36 committee and the senate finance committee a report that identifies
1-37 each nonresident bidder to whom the agency awarded a contract with
1-38 a value of $25,000 or more for the purchase of supplies, materials,
1-39 services, or equipment during the six calendar months preceding the
1-40 month in which the report is filed, if the agency awarded such a
1-41 contract during the reporting period.
1-42 (c) A contractor to whom a state agency has awarded a
1-43 contract shall report to the agency the identity of each
1-44 nonresident bidder to whom the contractor has awarded a subcontract
1-45 with a value of $25,000 or more, under the state contract, for the
1-46 purchase of supplies, materials, services, or equipment. The state
1-47 agency shall report that information in the manner prescribed by
1-48 Subsection (b) for contracts awarded by the agency.
1-49 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-50 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-54 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-55 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 Austin,
1-58 Texas
1-59 May 10, 1993
1-60 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-61 President of the Senate
1-62 Sir:
1-63 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-64 No. 829, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-65 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-66 pass and be printed.
1-67 Harris of
1-68 Dallas, Chairman
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2-2 WITNESSES
2-3 FOR AGAINST ON
2-4 ___________________________________________________________________
2-5 Name: John Pouland x
2-6 Representing: General Services Commission
2-7 City: Austin
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