1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1178
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1995;
1-3 April 6, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 12, 1995, reported favorably, as
1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 12, 1995,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Ellis
1-8 Amend HB 1178 as follows:
1-9 In SECTION 1, Sec. 252.021, delete Subsection (b) and insert the
1-10 following:
1-11 "(b) Before a municipality with a population of less than
1-12 400,000 may enter into a contract for insurance that requires an
1-13 expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more municipal funds,
1-14 the municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
1-15 chapter for competitive sealed bidding.
1-16 (c) A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-17 procedure only for high technology procurements or in a
1-18 municipality with a population in excess of 400,000 the purchase of
1-19 insurance."
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to authorizing municipalities to use the competitive
1-23 sealed proposal procedure for certain purchases.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 252.021, Local Government Code, as
1-26 amended by Chapters 749 and 757, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,
1-27 Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 252.021. Competitive Bidding and Competitive Proposal
1-29 Requirements. (a) Before a municipality may enter into a
1-30 contract<, other than a contract for insurance,> that requires an
1-31 expenditure of more than $15,000 from one or more municipal funds,
1-32 the municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
1-33 chapter for competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed
1-34 proposals.
1-35 (b) <Before a municipality may enter into a contract for
1-36 insurance that requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 from one
1-37 or more municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the
1-38 procedure prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding
1-39 or competitive sealed proposals.>
1-40 <(c)> A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-41 procedure only for high technology procurements or the purchase of
1-42 insurance.
1-43 SECTION 2. The heading of Section 252.042, Local Government
1-44 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-45 Sec. 252.042. REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS FOR CERTAIN <HIGH
1-46 TECHNOLOGY> PROCUREMENTS.
1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
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