Bill Text: TX HB2777 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2777

Bill Title: Relating to the contracting authority of the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB2777 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2777-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2777




	AN ACT
	relating to the contracting authority of the Parks and Wildlife
	Department.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 11.0171, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
	amended by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
	(c) The executive director may negotiate with and award a
	contract for goods or services to any qualified vendor if the
	executive director:
	(1) solicits bids for the goods or services through a
	competitive process in compliance with all applicable laws,
	including Chapters 2155, 2254, and 2269, Government Code, that
	fails to result in competitive responsive bids;
	(2) makes a written determination that resoliciting
	bids for the goods or services would:
	(A) be unlikely to result in responsive bids;
	(B) increase costs to the department; or
	(C) delay the ability of the department to
	address a critical need; and
	(3) determines that the vendor meets the requirements
	of the original solicitation.
	(d) To the extent practicable, the executive director may
	combine the procurement of multiple goods or services into a single
	competitively bid contract to enhance the contract's attraction for
	potential vendors.
	SECTION 2. Section 11.0171(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, as
	added by this Act, applies only to a contract for which bids are
	first solicited on or after the effective date of this Act. A
	contract for which bids are first solicited before the effective
	date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
	before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
	effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2777 was passed by the House on April
	20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 4, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 2777 on May 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 2,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 2777 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor