By West, Keffer, et al. H.B. No. 1003
76R3741 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the requirements for competitive bidding and proposal
1-3 procedures in certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 252.021(b) and (c), Local Government
1-6 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Before a municipality with a population of less than
1-8 75,000 [100,000] may enter into a contract for insurance that
1-9 requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more
1-10 municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the procedure
1-11 prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding.
1-12 (c) A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-13 procedure only for high technology procurements or, in a
1-14 municipality with a population of 75,000 or more [in excess of
1-15 100,000], the purchase of insurance.
1-16 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-17 to a purchase for which the notice required by Section 252.041,
1-18 Local Government Code, is first published on or after the effective
1-19 date of this Act. A purchase for which the notice is first
1-20 published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-21 law applicable to the purchase immediately before the effective
1-22 date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-23 purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.