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|  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
|  | AN ACT | 
|  | relating to contracting practices of certain large nonprofit | 
|  | corporations. | 
|  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
|  | SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 22, | 
|  | Business Organizations Code, is amended to read as follows: | 
|  | SUBCHAPTER B.  PURPOSES, [ AND] POWERS, AND DUTIES | 
|  | SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 22, Business Organizations | 
|  | Code, is amended by adding Section 22.058 to read as follows: | 
|  | Sec. 22.058.  CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES BY CERTAIN NONPROFIT | 
|  | CORPORATIONS.  (a) This section applies only to a nonprofit | 
|  | corporation that: | 
|  | (1)  is described by Section 501(c)(3), Internal | 
|  | Revenue Code of 1986; and | 
|  | (2)  has total annual gross revenues of $50 million or | 
|  | more, according to the corporation's most recent financial | 
|  | statement. | 
|  | (b)  A nonprofit corporation to which this section applies | 
|  | must obtain services in the manner provided for the purchase of | 
|  | services by a state agency using the request for proposals method | 
|  | under Subtitle D, Title 10, Government Code. | 
|  | SECTION 3.  Section 22.058, Business Organizations Code, as | 
|  | added by this Act, applies only to a contract that is entered into | 
|  | on or after the effective date of this Act.  A contract entered into | 
|  | before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | 
|  | effect on the date the contract was entered into, and the former law | 
|  | is continued in effect for that purpose. | 
|  | SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |