83R2067 VOO-D
 
  By: Farias, Ratliff, Menendez, Guerra, H.B. No. 194
      Collier, et al.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to considering ownership interests of certain disabled
  veterans in determining whether a business is a historically
  underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2161.001(3), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
               (3)  "Economically disadvantaged person" means a
  person who is economically disadvantaged because of the person's
  identification as a member of a certain group, including Black
  Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, Asian Pacific Americans,
  [and] Native Americans, and veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C.
  Section 101(2) who have a service-connected disability as defined
  by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(16), and who has suffered the effects of
  discriminatory practices or other similar insidious circumstances
  over which the person has no control.
         SECTION 2.  Section 2161.125, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 2161.125.  CATEGORIZATION OF HISTORICALLY
  UNDERUTILIZED BUSINESSES [BY SEX, RACE, AND ETHNICITY]. The
  comptroller, in cooperation with each state agency reporting under
  this subchapter, shall categorize each historically underutilized
  business included in a report under this subchapter by sex, race,
  and ethnicity and by whether the business qualifies as a
  historically underutilized business because it is owned or owned,
  operated, and controlled, as applicable, wholly or partly by one or
  more veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(2) who have a
  service-connected disability as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section
  101(16).
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.