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By:  Madla                                                        S.B. No. 719


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to authorizing a defense base development authority to use 
alternative methods for contracting for public improvement 
projects.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (10), Section 271.111, Local 
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(10)  "Governmental entity" means a municipality, 
county, [or] river authority, or defense base development authority 
established under Chapter 378 as added by Chapter 1221, Acts of the 
76th Legislature, Regular Session, 1999.
	SECTION 2.  Subsections (a) and (d), Section 271.112, Local 
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Any provision in the charter of a home-rule municipality 
or [any] regulation, if any, of a county, [or] river authority, or 
defense base development authority that requires the use of 
competitive bidding or competitive sealed proposals or that 
prescribes procurement procedures and that is in conflict with this 
subchapter controls over this subchapter unless the governing body 
of the governmental entity elects to have this subchapter supersede 
the charter or regulation.
	(d)  For a contract entered into by a municipality, [or] 
river authority, or defense base development authority under any of 
the methods provided by this subchapter, the municipality, [or] 
river authority, or defense base development authority shall 
publish notice of the time and place the bids or proposals, or the 
responses to a request for qualifications, will be received and 
opened.  The notice must be published in a newspaper of general 
circulation in the county in which the defense base development 
authority's or municipality's central administrative office is 
located or the county in which the greatest amount of the river 
authority's territory is located once each week for at least two 
weeks before the deadline for receiving bids, proposals, or 
responses.  If there is not a newspaper of general circulation in 
that county, the notice shall be published in a newspaper of general 
circulation in the county nearest the county seat of the county in 
which the defense base development authority's or municipality's 
central administrative office is located or the county in which the 
greatest amount of the river authority's territory is located.  In a 
two-step procurement process, the time and place the second step 
bids, proposals, or responses will be received are not required to 
be published separately.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                      
	(b)  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a 
contract for which requests for bids, requests for proposals, or 
requests for qualifications are published or distributed on or 
after September 1, 2003.