By Davis H.B. No. 3015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the good faith effort purchasing goal in the State
1-3 Purchasing and General Services Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.10(b), State Purchasing and General
1-6 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) The commission and each state agency shall make a good
1-9 faith effort to assist women owned businesses to receive not less
1-10 than a certain percent and minority owned businesses to receive not
1-11 less than a certain <historically underutilized businesses to
1-12 receive not less than 30> percent of the total value of all
1-13 contract awards for the purchase of supplies, materials, services,
1-14 and equipment that the commission or other agency expects to make
1-15 during a fiscal year. The commission and each state agency shall
1-16 estimate the expected total value of the contract awards they
1-17 expect to make that are subject to this subsection not later than
1-18 the 60th day of the agency's fiscal year and may revise the
1-19 estimate as new information requires.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.