By: Duncan S.B. No. 507
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the requirements for competitive bidding and proposal
1-2 procedures in certain municipalities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 252.021, Local
1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Before a municipality with a population of less than
1-7 75,000 [100,000] may enter into a contract for insurance that
1-8 requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more
1-9 municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the procedure
1-10 prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding.
1-11 (c) A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-12 procedure only for high technology procurements or, in a
1-13 municipality with a population of 75,000 or more [in excess of
1-14 100,000], the purchase of insurance.
1-15 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-16 to a purchase for which the notice required by Section 252.041,
1-17 Local Government Code, is first published on or after the effective
1-18 date of this Act. A purchase for which the notice is first
1-19 published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-20 law applicable to the purchase immediately before the effective
1-21 date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-22 purpose.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.