By Dukes H.B. No. 1890
76R7036 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to increasing the competitiveness of historically
1-3 underutilized businesses in state procurement.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2155.074(g), Government Code, as added by
1-6 Chapter 508, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (g) A state agency shall post in the business daily either
1-9 the entire bid or proposal solicitation package or a notice that
1-10 includes all information necessary to make a successful bid,
1-11 proposal, or other applicable expression of interest for the
1-12 procurement contract, including at a minimum the following
1-13 information for each procurement that the state agency will make
1-14 that is estimated to exceed $25,000 in value:
1-15 (1) a clear and complete [brief] description of the
1-16 goods or services to be procured and any applicable state product
1-17 or service codes for the goods and services;
1-18 (2) the last date on which bids, proposals, or other
1-19 applicable expressions of interest will be accepted;
1-20 (3) the estimated quantity of goods or services to be
1-21 procured;
1-22 (4) if applicable, the previous price paid by the
1-23 state agency for the same or similar goods or services;
1-24 (5) the estimated date on which the goods or services
2-1 to be procured will be needed; and
2-2 (6) the name, business mailing address, and business
2-3 telephone number of the state agency employee a person may contact
2-4 to inquire about [obtain] all necessary information related to
2-5 making a bid or proposal or other applicable expression of
2-6 interest for the procurement contract.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 2155.266, Government Code, is amended by
2-8 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
2-9 follows:
2-10 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [The]
2-11 commission may charge a person applying for registration on the
2-12 master bidders list a registration fee and may charge a registrant
2-13 an annual renewal fee in an amount designed to recover the
2-14 commission's costs in:
2-15 (1) making and maintaining the master bidders list;
2-16 and
2-17 (2) soliciting bids or proposals under this
2-18 subchapter.
2-19 (c) The commission shall register and maintain the
2-20 registration of a historically underutilized business on the list
2-21 without charging the historically underutilized business a
2-22 registration fee or an annual renewal fee.
2-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.