Bill Text: TX HB902 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of a bidder's principal place of business in awarding certain municipal contracts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-20 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [HB902 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB902-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Thompson, et al. | H.B. No. 902 | |
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| relating to consideration of a bidder's principal place of business | ||
| in awarding certain municipal contracts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 271.9051(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Section 271.9052, this [ |
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| section applies only to a municipality with a population of less | ||
| than 250,000 that is authorized under this title to purchase real | ||
| property or personal property that is not affixed to real property. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 BIDDER'S | ||
| PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN MUNICIPALITY WITH POPULATION OF TWO | ||
| MILLION OR MORE. (a) This section applies only to a municipality | ||
| with a population of two million or more that is authorized under | ||
| this title to purchase real property or personal property that is | ||
| not affixed to real property. | ||
| (b) In purchasing under this title any real property, | ||
| personal property that is not affixed to real property, or | ||
| services, if a municipality receives one or more competitive sealed | ||
| bids from a bidder whose principal place of business is in the | ||
| municipality and whose bid is within five percent of the lowest bid | ||
| price received by the municipality from a bidder who is not a | ||
| resident of the municipality, the municipality may enter into a | ||
| contract for an expenditure of less than $100,000 in accordance | ||
| with and subject to the provisions of Sections 271.9051(b), (c), | ||
| and (d). | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a contract for which the initial notice soliciting bids is given | ||
| on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
