By Holzheauser H.B. No. 1815
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to payment of vendors by the state.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 601(f), Section 7, Subsection (a) is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 7. (a) This Act does not apply to payments made by a
1-7 governmental entity or a vendor in the event:
1-8 (1) <the terms of a contract specify other times and methods
1-9 of payment or methods of resolving disputes or interest owed on
1-10 delinquent payments; or (2)> there is a bona fide dispute between a
1-11 vendor and a subcontractor or between a subcontractor or between a
1-12 subcontractor and its supplier concerning the supplies, materials,
1-13 or equipment delivered or the services performed which causes the
1-14 payment to be late; or
1-15 (2) <(3)> the terms of a federal contract, grant,
1-16 regulation, or statute prevent the governmental entity from making
1-17 a timely payment with federal funds; or
1-18 (3) <(4)> the invoice is not mailed to the addressee in
1-19 strict accordance with instructions, if any, on the purchase order
1-20 covering said payment.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to payment due after the
1-22 effective date of this Act.
1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-1 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The importance of this
2-2 legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
2-3 houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
2-4 the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.