Bill Text: TX HB2873 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the development of a model contract management process for use with low-risk state procurements.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2873 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2873-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2873 |
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relating to the development of a model contract management process | ||
for use with low-risk state procurements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2262.051(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) The guide must include model provisions for state agency | ||
contracts. The guide must: | ||
(1) distinguish between essential provisions that a | ||
state agency must include in a contract to protect the interests of | ||
this state and recommended provisions that a state agency may | ||
include in a contract; | ||
(2) recognize the unique contracting needs of an | ||
individual state agency or program and provide sufficient | ||
flexibility to accommodate those needs, consistent with protecting | ||
the interests of this state; [ |
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(3) include maximum contract periods under which a new | ||
competitive solicitation is not necessary; and | ||
(4) include the model contract management process | ||
developed under Section 2262.104 and recommendations on the | ||
appropriate use of the model. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 2262, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2262.104 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2262.104. LOW-RISK CONTRACTS. The contract advisory | ||
team shall identify the types of procurements that pose a low risk | ||
of loss to the state and develop a model contract management process | ||
for use with those procurements. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2873 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2873 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |