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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to considering ownership interests of certain disabled |
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veterans in determining whether a business is a historically |
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underutilized business for purposes of state contracting. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 2161.001, Government Code, is amended by |
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amending Subdivision (3) and adding Subdivision (5) to read as |
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follows: |
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(3) "Economically disadvantaged person" means a |
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person who is economically disadvantaged because of the person's |
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identification as a member of a certain group, including Black |
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Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, Asian Pacific Americans, |
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[and] Native Americans, and disabled veterans, and who has suffered |
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the effects of discriminatory practices or other similar insidious |
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circumstances over which the person has no control. |
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(5) "Disabled veteran" means a veteran of the armed |
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services of the United States who is classified as disabled by the |
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Veterans Administration or its successor or the branch of the armed |
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services in which the veteran served and whose disability is |
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service-connected. The term does not include a person having a less |
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than honorable discharge from military service. |
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SECTION 2. Section 2161.125, Government Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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Sec. 2161.125. CATEGORIZATION OF HISTORICALLY |
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UNDERUTILIZED BUSINESSES [BY SEX, RACE, AND ETHNICITY]. The |
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comptroller, in cooperation with each state agency reporting under |
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this subchapter, shall categorize each historically underutilized |
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business included in a report under this subchapter by sex, race, |
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and ethnicity and by whether the historically underutilized |
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business derives its status as a historically underutilized |
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business because it is owned or owned, operated, and controlled, as |
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applicable, wholly or partly by one or more disabled veterans. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |