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Amend SB 1111 by adding the following appropriately numbered
section to the bill and renumbering subsequent sections
accordingly:
SECTION _____. Subchapter E, Chapter 335, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 335.076 to read as follows:
Sec. 335.076. CONTRACTS WITH HISTORICALLY UNDERUTILIZED
BUSINESSES. (a) This section applies only in relation to an
approved venue project constructed and operated under the authority
of a district in a county with a population of more than two million
that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than one
million.
(b) In this section, "historically underutilized business"
has the meaning assigned by Section 2161.001, Government Code.
(c) A district shall make a good faith effort to increase the
contracts the district awards to historically underutilized
businesses for the construction of a venue project. The district
shall make the good faith effort in the same manner, based on the
same rules, and under the same conditions as a state agency under
Section 2161.182, Government Code.
(d) A district shall make a good faith effort to increase the
contracts the district awards to historically underutilized
businesses for the purchase of goods and services relating to the
construction or operation of a venue project. The district shall
make the good faith effort in the same manner, based on the same
rules, and under the same conditions as a state agency under Section
2161.181, Government Code.