83R19679 YDB-F
 
  By: Cortez H.B. No. 655
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to exempting defense base development authorities from
  certain contracting requirements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2267.003, Government Code, as added by
  Chapter 1334 (S.B. 1048), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 2267.003.  APPLICABILITY.  This chapter does not apply
  to:
               (1)  the financing, design, construction, maintenance,
  or operation of a highway in the state highway system;
               (2)  a transportation authority created under Chapter
  451, 452, 453, or 460, Transportation Code; [or]
               (3)  any telecommunications, cable television, video
  service, or broadband infrastructure other than technology
  installed as part of a qualifying project that is essential to the
  project; or
               (4)  a redevelopment project of a defense base
  development authority created under Chapter 379B, Local Government
  Code.
         SECTION 2.  (a) This section takes effect only if the Act of
  the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, relating to
  nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes does
  not become law.
         (b)  Subchapter A, Chapter 2267, Government Code, as added by
  Chapter 1129 (H.B. 628), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2011, is amended by adding Section 2267.011 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 2267.011.  EXEMPTION: DEFENSE BASE DEVELOPMENT
  AUTHORITIES. This chapter does not apply to a defense base
  development authority created under Chapter 379B, Local Government
  Code.
         SECTION 3.  (a) This section takes effect only if the Act of
  the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, relating to
  nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes
  becomes law.
         (b)  Subchapter A, Chapter 2269, Government Code, is amended
  by adding Section 2269.011 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2269.011.  EXEMPTION: DEFENSE BASE DEVELOPMENT
  AUTHORITIES. This chapter does not apply to a defense base
  development authority created under Chapter 379B, Local Government
  Code.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.