Bill Text: TX SB300 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural disaster.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB300-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural disaster.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB300-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miles | S.B. No. 300 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 4, 2019; February 7, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; April 1, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
April 1, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 300 | By: Menéndez |
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relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of | ||
certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural | ||
disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2254.004(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) In procuring architectural, engineering, or land | ||
surveying services, including procuring those services under an | ||
indefinite quantity contract under Section 31.069, Natural | ||
Resources Code, a governmental entity shall: | ||
(1) first select the most highly qualified provider of | ||
those services on the basis of demonstrated competence and | ||
qualifications; and | ||
(2) then attempt to negotiate with that provider a | ||
contract at a fair and reasonable price. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 31.069 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.069. INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES | ||
AFTER DECLARED NATURAL DISASTER. (a) The land office shall enter | ||
into indefinite quantity contracts with vendors to provide | ||
information management services, construction services, including | ||
engineering construction services, and other services the land | ||
office determines may be necessary to construct, repair, or rebuild | ||
property or infrastructure in the event of a natural disaster. | ||
(b) A contract entered into under Subsection (a) may not | ||
expire after May 1 of a calendar year. The terms of a contract under | ||
Subsection (a) must: | ||
(1) provide that the contract is contingent on: | ||
(A) the availability of funds; | ||
(B) the occurrence of a natural disaster not | ||
later than 48 months after the effective date of the contract; and | ||
(C) delivery of the services to an area of this | ||
state declared by the governor or president of the United States | ||
under law to be a disaster area as a result of the natural disaster; | ||
and | ||
(2) have a term of four years. | ||
(c) The land office shall ensure that it has contracts in | ||
place under this section with vendors to provide the services | ||
described by Subsection (a) that take effect immediately on the | ||
expiration of a contract under this section. | ||
(d) A contract under this section may be funded by multiple | ||
sources including local, state, and federal agencies and the | ||
disaster contingency fund established under Section 418.073, | ||
Government Code. | ||
(e) If the land office determines that federal funds may be | ||
used for a contract under Subsection (a), the land office shall | ||
ensure that the contract complies with the requirements of the | ||
Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 C.F.R. Chapter 1), or a | ||
successor regulation. | ||
(f) In awarding a contract under this section, the land | ||
office shall consider and apply any applicable state law and rules | ||
of the land office relating to contracting with historically | ||
underutilized businesses. | ||
(g) If on September 1, 2019, the land office has indefinite | ||
quantity contracts with vendors for the provision of the types of | ||
services specified by Subsection (a), the land office is not | ||
required to enter into new indefinite quantity contracts that meet | ||
the requirements of this section until those existing contracts | ||
expire. This subsection expires September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 3. Except as provided by Section 31.069(g), Natural | ||
Resources Code, as added by this Act, the General Land Office shall | ||
enter into indefinite quantity contracts required by Section | ||
31.069, Natural Resources Code, as added by this Act, not later than | ||
May 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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