78R7117 JSA-D

By:  West                                                         S.B. No. 1006


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring state institutions of higher education to develop plans for increasing the use of historically underutilized businesses in purchasing and contracting. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 2161.123(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) Each state agency, including the commission, that is required to have a [shall prepare as part of its] strategic plan under Chapter 2056 shall include in its strategic plan a written plan for increasing the agency's use of historically underutilized businesses in purchasing and public works contracting. The governing board of each university system or institution of higher education not included in a university system, other than a public junior college, shall prepare a written plan for increasing the use of historically underutilized businesses in purchasing and public works contracting by the system or institution. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.