78R1023 CAS-D

By:  Denny                                                        H.B. No. 443



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to providing notice concerning certain school district 
purchases.  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 44.031(g), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(g)  Notice of the time by which [when] and place where the 
bids or proposals, or the responses to a request for 
qualifications, will be received and opened shall be posted on the 
electronic procurement marketplace established under Subchapter B, 
Chapter 2177, Government Code, for a period of at least 14 days 
before the deadline for receiving bids, proposals, or responses to 
a request for qualifications or published in the county in which the 
district's central administrative office is located, once a week 
for at least two weeks before the deadline for receiving bids, 
proposals, or responses to a request for qualifications.  If the 
notice is to be provided by publication and there is not a newspaper 
in the county in which the district's central administrative office 
is located [that county], the advertising shall be published in a 
newspaper in the county nearest the county seat of the county in 
which the district's central administrative office is located.  In 
a two-step procurement process, the time by which and place where 
the second-step bids, proposals, or responses will be received are 
not required to be posted or published separately.
	SECTION 2.  Section 2177.051(e), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(e)  The commission may make state procurement information 
available to political subdivisions through the electronic 
procurement marketplace on a fee-for-service basis.  The commission 
shall set the fees in an amount that recovers the state's costs in 
providing the access to a political subdivision.  The commission 
shall permit a school district, in complying with Section 
44.031(g), Education Code, to post information on the electronic 
procurement marketplace.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.