Bill Text: TX HB1496 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1496 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts to report management fees under certain cooperative purchasing contracts.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Not again placed on intent calendar [HB1496 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1496-Comm_Sub.html



	By: VanDeaver (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)	H.B. No. 1496
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021;
	May 4, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Education; May 14, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
	May 14, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1496	By: Lucio


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to requiring school districts to report management fees
	under certain cooperative purchasing contracts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 44.0331(a), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a) A school district that enters into a purchasing contract
	valued at $25,000 or more under Section 44.031(a)(5), under
	Subchapter F, Chapter 271, Local Government Code, or under any
	other cooperative purchasing program authorized for school
	districts by law shall document a [~~any~~] contract-related fee,
	including a [~~any~~] management fee, paid by or to the district and the
	purpose of each fee under the contract.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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