By: Slawson (Senate Sponsor - Flores) H.B. No. 3013

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023; May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; May 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 12, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to exempting certain contracts from procurement notice requirements.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 2262.051(j), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(j) For a procurement in an amount that exceeds $20 million [other than a contract entered into by the comptroller under Section 2155.061], the guide must require a state agency to notify interested parties at least two months before the date the agency issues the solicitation for the procurement unless the procurement is for:

(1) a contract entered into by the comptroller under Section 2155.061; or

(2) a contract for services necessary to respond to a natural disaster.

SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a contract for which a state agency first advertises or otherwise solicits bids, proposals, offers, or qualifications on or after the effective date of this Act. A contract for which a state agency first advertised or otherwise solicited bids, proposals, offers, or qualifications before that date is governed by the law in effect when the first advertisement or solicitation was given, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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