Bill Text: TX HB1739 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to certain contracts regarding airports operated by or on behalf of a local government.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB1739 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1739-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Romero, Jr., Leman, Patterson H.B. No. 1739
(Senate Sponsor - Creighton)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2021;
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Transportation; May 19, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
May 19, 2021, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1739 By: Kolkhorst

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain contracts regarding airports operated by or on
behalf of a local government.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.019, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 22.019. CONTRACTS. Except as provided by Section
22.0191, a [A] local government may enter into a contract necessary
to the execution of a power granted the local government and for a
purpose provided by this chapter.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 22, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 22.0191 to read as follows:
Sec. 22.0191. CERTAIN AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE OR EQUIPMENT
CONTRACTS. (a) This section applies only to an airport
infrastructure or equipment contract for the procurement of a
passenger boarding bridge at an airport.
(b) A local government or a person operating an airport on
behalf of a local government may not enter into an airport
infrastructure or equipment contract with:
(1) an entity that:
(A) a federal court determines has
misappropriated intellectual property or trade secrets from
another entity organized under the laws of:
(i) the United States;
(ii) this state or another state; or
(iii) a political subdivision of this state
or another state; and
(B) is owned wholly or partly by, is controlled
by, or receives subsidies from the government of China; or
(2) any entity that owns, controls, is owned or
controlled by, is under common ownership with, or is a successor to
an entity described by Subdivision (1).
(c) An airport infrastructure or equipment contract entered
into by a local government or a person operating an airport on
behalf of a local government must contain a written statement by the
entity with which the local government or person is contracting
verifying that the entity is not an entity described by Subsection
(b)(1) or (2).
(d) If the written statement required in an airport
infrastructure or equipment contract under Subsection (c) is found
to be false, the contract is voidable by the local government or
person operating the airport.
SECTION 3. Section 22.0191, Transportation Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to an airport infrastructure or equipment
contract entered into, modified, or renewed on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. 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, 2021.
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