84R25355 SCL-F
 
  By: Bernal H.B. No. 3193
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to consideration of location of a bidder's or offeror's
  principal place of business in awarding certain municipal
  contracts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 271.905, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  For the purpose of this section, if a local government
  is a municipality, the municipality may treat a bidder whose
  principal place of business is outside the municipality and in a
  county in which the municipality is located in the same manner as a
  bidder whose principal place of business is in the municipality.
         SECTION 2.  Section 271.9051, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  For the purpose of this section, a municipality may
  treat a bidder whose principal place of business is outside the
  municipality and in a county in which the municipality is located in
  the same manner as a bidder whose principal place of business is in
  the municipality.
         SECTION 3.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 271.9052 to read as follows:
         Sec. 271.9052.  CONSIDERATION OF LOCATION OF OFFEROR'S
  PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN AWARDING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL
  CONTRACTS. (a)  In purchasing as authorized under this title any
  personal property that is not affixed to real property or services
  other than professional services, if a municipality that solicits
  requests for proposals receives one or more proposals from an
  offeror whose principal place of business is in the municipality or
  outside the municipality and in a county in which the municipality
  is located, the municipality may consider, as a percentage of the
  evaluation factors, an offeror's principal place of business.
         (b)  This section does not prohibit a municipality from
  rejecting all proposals.
         (c)  For the purpose of this section, a municipality may
  treat an offeror whose principal place of business is outside the
  municipality and in a county in which the municipality is located in
  the same manner as an offeror whose principal place of business is
  in the municipality.
         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, 2015.