Bill Text: TX HB3418 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the state purchasing preference for recycled, remanufactured, or environmentally sensitive products.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-18 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB3418 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3418-Engrossed.html
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| By: Fierro | H.B. No. 3418 | |
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| relating to the state purchasing preference for recycled, | ||
| remanufactured, or environmentally sensitive products. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2155.445, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) The comptroller regularly shall review and revise its | ||
| procurement procedures and specifications for the purchase of goods | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) eliminate procedures and specifications that | ||
| explicitly discriminate against recycled, remanufactured, or | ||
| environmentally sensitive products, as those terms are defined by | ||
| rule of the comptroller; [ |
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| (2) encourage the use of recycled, remanufactured, or | ||
| environmentally sensitive products; and | ||
| (3) require that any information regarding the | ||
| recycled, remanufactured, or environmentally sensitive nature of a | ||
| product that is used as the basis for receiving a preference be | ||
| certified as accurate by an entity approved by the comptroller. | ||
| (e) A state agency shall provide notice of the preference | ||
| under this section in all solicitation documents for purchases by | ||
| the agency of goods for which the preference may be given, including | ||
| the method the agency will use to evaluate, apply, and award the | ||
| preference. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
