Bill Text: TX HB1410 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of a bidder's principal place of business by public junior college districts in awarding certain contracts.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Left pending in committee [HB1410 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1410-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | H.B. No. 1410 | |
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| relating to consideration of a bidder's principal place of business | ||
| by public junior college districts in awarding certain contracts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 130.010, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 130.010. PURCHASING CONTRACTS. (a) Except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (c), the [ |
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| Chapter 44, relating to the purchase of goods and services under | ||
| contract by a school district apply to the purchase of goods and | ||
| services under contract by a junior college district. | ||
| (b) To the extent of any conflict, the provisions of this | ||
| section and Subchapter B, Chapter 44, prevail over any other law | ||
| relating to the purchase of goods and services by a junior college | ||
| district. | ||
| (c) A junior college district, in awarding a contract by | ||
| competitive sealed bid, may consider the location of a bidder's | ||
| principal place of business in the manner provided by Sections | ||
| 271.905 and 271.9051, Local Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
