By Edwards                                            H.B. No. 3057
         76R9281 JRD-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to including veterans of certain military conflicts within
 1-3     the definition of a historically underutilized business for
 1-4     purposes of state contracting.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section  2161.001, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision (4) to read as
 1-8     follows:
 1-9                 (2)  "Historically underutilized business" means:
1-10                       (A)  a corporation formed for the purpose of
1-11     making a profit in which 51 percent or more of all classes of the
1-12     shares of stock or other equitable securities are owned by one or
1-13     more veterans of military conflict or socially disadvantaged
1-14     persons who have a proportionate interest and actively participate
1-15     in the corporation's control, operation, and management;
1-16                       (B)  a sole proprietorship created for the
1-17     purpose of making a profit that is completely owned, operated, and
1-18     controlled by a veteran of military conflict or socially
1-19     disadvantaged person;
1-20                       (C)  a partnership formed for the purpose of
1-21     making a profit in which 51 percent or more of the assets and
1-22     interest in the partnership are owned by one or more veterans of
1-23     military conflict or  socially disadvantaged persons who have a
1-24     proportionate interest and actively participate in the
 2-1     partnership's control, operation, and management;
 2-2                       (D)  a joint venture in which each entity in the
 2-3     venture is a historically underutilized business, as determined
 2-4     under another paragraph of this subdivision; or
 2-5                       (E)  a supplier contract between a historically
 2-6     underutilized business as determined under another paragraph of
 2-7     this subdivision and a prime contractor under which the
 2-8     historically underutilized business is directly involved in the
 2-9     manufacture or distribution of the goods or otherwise warehouses
2-10     and ships the goods.
2-11                 (4)  "Veteran of military conflict" means an individual
2-12     who served on active duty in the army, navy, air force, marine
2-13     corps, or coast guard of the United States during the Vietnam
2-14     conflict, the Korean War, or World War II.
2-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.