H.B. No. 1178
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 with a population of less than
1-16 100,000 may enter into a contract for insurance that requires an
1-17 expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more municipal funds,
1-18 the municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
1-19 chapter for competitive sealed bidding <or competitive sealed
1-20 proposals>.
1-21 (c) A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-22 procedure only for high technology procurements or, in a
1-23 municipality with a population in excess of 100,000, the purchase
1-24 of insurance.
2-1 SECTION 2. The heading of Section 252.042, Local Government
2-2 Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-3 Sec. 252.042. REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS FOR CERTAIN <HIGH
2-4 TECHNOLOGY> PROCUREMENTS.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.