Bill Text: TX HB2509 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to monitoring a state agency's compliance with the requirement to purchase certain goods and services from a community rehabilitation program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2509 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2509-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Gutierrez | H.B. No. 2509 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2509: | |||
By: Raymond | C.S.H.B. No. 2509 |
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relating to monitoring a state agency's compliance with the | ||
requirement to purchase certain goods and services from a community | ||
rehabilitation program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 122, Human Resources Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 122.0096 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 122.0096. PROCUREMENT MONITORING. (a) The workforce | ||
commission may monitor the procurement practices of a state agency | ||
to determine compliance with this chapter. The workforce | ||
commission shall notify the state auditor's office if the workforce | ||
commission determines: | ||
(1) a state agency procured a product or service from a | ||
vendor other than a community rehabilitation program; | ||
(2) a suitable product or service that met the state | ||
agency's specifications was available, within the time specified by | ||
the agency, from a community rehabilitation program on the date the | ||
procurement was made; and | ||
(3) the procurement of the product or service from a | ||
community rehabilitation program was not exempted: | ||
(A) under Section 122.016; or | ||
(B) because the product or service failed to meet | ||
a specification described by Section 2155.138(a)(3), Government | ||
Code. | ||
(b) The workforce commission may request that the state | ||
auditor's office conduct an audit of a state agency described by | ||
Subsection (a) to determine the agency's compliance with this | ||
chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |