By Clark H.B. No. 1161
75R4815 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to uniform competitive bidding requirements for
1-3 municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 271.021(2), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Governmental entity" means:
1-8 (A) a county;
1-9 (B) [a municipality;]
1-10 [(C)] a common or independent school district;
1-11 (C) [(D)] a hospital district or authority;
1-12 (D) [(E)] a housing authority; or
1-13 (E) [(F)] an agency or instrumentality of the
1-14 governmental entities described by Paragraphs (A) through (D)
1-15 [(E)].
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 271.023, Local Government Code, is
1-17 repealed.
1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-19 applies only to a contract for which a municipality first solicits
1-20 bids or proposals on or after that date.
1-21 SECTION 4. 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
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.