78R1023 CAS-D
By: Lindsay S.B. No. 1359
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.