By: West, Royce S.B. No. 226
73R1669 MRB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the conditions under which certain municipalities are
1-3 required to solicit competitive bids or proposals.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 252.021(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Before a municipality with 50,000 or more inhabitants
1-8 may enter into a contract that requires an expenditure of more than
1-9 $25,000 <$10,000> from one or more municipal funds, the
1-10 municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
1-11 chapter for competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed
1-12 proposals.
1-13 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-14 252.021(a), Local Government Code, relating to the contractual
1-15 amount that requires a municipality to solicit competitive bids or
1-16 proposals, applies only to a contract for which the notice
1-17 soliciting bids or proposals is first published or posted on or
1-18 after September 1, 1993. A contract for which the notice is first
1-19 published or posted before September 1, 1993, is subject to the law
1-20 as it existed at the time the notice was first published or posted,
1-21 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.