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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