1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 507
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 1999; February 16, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0;
1-6 April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 507 By: Nixon
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the requirements for competitive bidding and proposal
1-11 procedures in certain municipalities.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 252.021, Local
1-14 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) Before a municipality with a population of less than
1-16 75,000 [100,000] may enter into a contract for insurance that
1-17 requires an expenditure of more than $5,000 from one or more
1-18 municipal funds, the municipality must comply with the procedure
1-19 prescribed by this chapter for competitive sealed bidding.
1-20 (c) A municipality may use the competitive sealed proposal
1-21 procedure only for high technology procurements or, in a
1-22 municipality with a population of 75,000 or more [in excess of
1-23 100,000], the purchase of insurance.
1-24 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-25 to a purchase for which the notice required by Section 252.041,
1-26 Local Government Code, is first published on or after the effective
1-27 date of this Act. A purchase for which the notice is first
1-28 published before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
1-29 law applicable to the purchase immediately before the effective
1-30 date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-31 purpose.
1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38 passage, and it is so enacted.
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