Bill Text: TX HB1413 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the awarding of certain contracts for software, hardware, or technology services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1413 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1413-Introduced.html

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88R5553 YDB-D
By: Capriglione H.B. No. 1413

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the awarding of certain contracts for software,
hardware, or technology services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2054.0565, Government Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) The awarding of a shared technology services contract
under this section for software, hardware, or technology services
must comply with Section 2157.068(e-1).
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 offers, bids, proposals, qualifications, or other
applicable expressions of interest on or after the effective date
of this Act. A contract for which a state agency first advertises
or otherwise solicits offers, bids, proposals, qualifications, or
other applicable expressions of interest before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.