By:  West                                              S.B. No. 150
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to public contracts with disadvantaged businesses.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Title 20, Article 601i, Section 4, Purchasing and
    1-4  General Services Commission is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 4.  To qualify as a contractor claiming disadvantaged
    1-6  business status under this Act:
    1-7              (1)  the general contractor will perform all of the
    1-8  estimating and contract administration functions with the employees
    1-9  of that contractor;
   1-10              (2)  subcontractors will perform all of their work of
   1-11  their trade with their own employees or, if the subcontractor uses
   1-12  an employee leasing firm for the purpose of providing salary and
   1-13  benefit administration, with employees who in all other respects
   1-14  are supervised and perform on the job as if they were employees of
   1-15  the subcontractor; and
   1-16              (3)  a prime contractor who intends to subcontract
   1-17  specific trades may do so if the dollar value of the subcontracts
   1-18  does not exceed 49 percent of the original value of the contract,
   1-19  and all work in the trade of the prime contractor is accomplished
   1-20  by employees of that contractor, except a prime contractor may
   1-21  subcontract all or part of the contract to another disadvantaged
   1-22  business, or, if the prime contractor uses an employee leasing firm
   1-23  for the purposes of salary and benefit administration, with
    2-1  employees who in all other respects are supervised and perform on
    2-2  the job as if they were employees of the prime contractor.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.