By Duncan S.B. No. 507
76R6147 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to purchases by municipalities through a competitive
1-3 procedure.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 252.021, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 252.021. COMPETITIVE BIDDING AND COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL
1-8 REQUIREMENTS. (a) Before a municipality may enter into a contract
1-9 that requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 [$15,000] from one
1-10 or more municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the
1-11 procedure prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding
1-12 or competitive sealed proposals.
1-13 (b) [Before a municipality with a population of less than
1-14 100,000 may enter into a contract for insurance that requires an
1-15 expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more municipal funds,
1-16 the municipality must comply with the procedure prescribed by this
1-17 chapter for competitive sealed bidding.]
1-18 [(c)] A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-19 procedure only for high technology procurements or[, in a
1-20 municipality with a population in excess of 100,000,] the purchase
1-21 of insurance.
1-22 (c) [(d)] This chapter does not apply to the expenditure of
1-23 municipal funds that are derived from an appropriation, loan, or
1-24 grant received by a municipality from the federal or state
2-1 government for conducting a community development program
2-2 established under Chapter 373 if under the program items are
2-3 purchased under the request-for-proposal process described by
2-4 Section 252.042. A municipality using a request-for-proposal
2-5 process under this subsection shall also comply with the
2-6 requirements of Section 252.0215.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-8 applies only to a contract made on or after that date.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.