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Amend CSHB 1470 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent ARTICLES appropriately:

ARTICLE ___.  AWARD OF STATE CONTRACTS; HEALTH BENEFITS

COVERAGE REQUIRED
	SECTION ____.01.  Subchapter B, Chapter 2155, Government 
Code, is amended by adding Section 2155.0771 to read as follows:
	Sec. 2155.0771.  HEALTH BENEFITS COVERAGE REQUIRED.  (a)  A 
vendor may not be awarded a state contract for goods or services 
that has a value greater than $1 million, including a contract for 
which purchasing authority is delegated to a state


agency, unless the vendor provides health benefits coverage that is 
at least equivalent to basic coverage provided under the state 
employees group benefit program provided under Chapter 1551, 
Insurance Code, to each full-time employee and the employee's 
dependents.
	(b)  The vendor must pay 100 percent of the health insurance 
premiums for each full-time employee who participates in the 
insurance program and at least 50 percent of the health insurance 
premiums for each dependent of a full-time employee whom the 
employee elects to cover under the insurance program.
	SECTION ____.02.  Section 2155.0771, Government Code, as 
added by this Act, applies only to a contract for the procurement of 
goods and services for which the solicitation of bids or proposals 
or similar expressions of interest is published on or after 
September 1, 2007.