By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 1178
       74R3226 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing municipalities to use the competitive
    1-3  sealed proposal procedure for certain purchases.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 252.021, Local Government Code, as
    1-6  amended by Chapters 749 and 757, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
    1-7  Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 252.021.  Competitive Bidding and Competitive Proposal
    1-9  Requirements.  (a)  Before a municipality may enter into a
   1-10  contract<, other than a contract for insurance,> that requires an
   1-11  expenditure of more than $15,000 from one or more municipal funds,
   1-12  the municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
   1-13  chapter for competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed
   1-14  proposals.
   1-15        (b)  <Before a municipality may enter into a contract for
   1-16  insurance that requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 from one
   1-17  or more municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the
   1-18  procedure prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding
   1-19  or competitive sealed proposals.>
   1-20        <(c)>  A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
   1-21  procedure only for high technology procurements or the purchase of
   1-22  insurance.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The heading of Section 252.042, Local Government
   1-24  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    2-1        Sec. 252.042.  REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS FOR CERTAIN <HIGH
    2-2  TECHNOLOGY> PROCUREMENTS.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.