Bill Text: TX HB208 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of project design and construction requirements to economic development corporations created by governmental entities subject to those requirements.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Considered in Calendars [HB208 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB208-Comm_Sub.html

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84R14943 ATP-D
By: Leach, Turner of Collin H.B. No. 208
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 208:
By: Leach C.S.H.B. No. 208

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of project design and construction
requirements to economic development corporations created by
governmental entities subject to those requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 501, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 501.0741 to read as follows:
Sec. 501.0741. PROJECT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO CORPORATIONS. A corporation must comply
with the same procurement process methods for the design and
construction of projects and construction services with which its
authorizing unit must comply.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act affecting
contract requirements apply only to a contract for which an
economic development corporation first advertises or otherwise
solicits bids, proposals, offers, or qualifications or makes a
similar solicitation on or after the effective date of this Act. A
contract for which an economic development corporation first
advertises or otherwise solicits bids, proposals, offers, or
qualifications or makes a similar solicitation before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
advertisement or solicitation is made, and that law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.