79R7282 KLA-D

By:  Flores                                                       H.B. No. 2227



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to contracting for transportation services to day activity 
and health services program facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code, 
is amended by adding Section 161.075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 161.075.  DAY ACTIVITY AND HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM 
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 2155.144, 
Government Code, and Section 455.0015, Transportation Code, and 
except as provided by Subsection (b), the commission shall use the 
open market purchase procedure under Subchapter B, Chapter 2156, 
Government Code, in awarding a contract to a transportation 
services provider for the provision of transportation services to 
day activity and health services program participants to and from 
program facilities.
	(b)  Notwithstanding Section 2156.062(1), Government Code, 
the commission may award a contract to a transportation services 
provider only after the commission obtains and evaluates at least 
five competitive bids for the contract for every 1,000 clients who 
will be served under the contract.
	SECTION 2.  Section 161.075, Human Resources Code, as added 
by this Act, applies only to a contract entered into or renewed on 
or after the effective date of this Act.  A contract entered into or 
renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law 
in effect on the date the contract was entered into or renewed, and 
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.