Bill Text: TX HB3419 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural disaster.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB3419 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3419-Introduced.html
  86R1963 MCK-D
 
  By: Thompson of Brazoria H.B. No. 3419
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of
  certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural
  disaster.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
  Code, is amended by adding Section 31.069 to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.069.  INDEFINITE QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES
  AFTER DECLARED NATURAL DISASTER. (a) Not later than May 1 of each
  year, the land office shall enter into indefinite quantity
  contracts with vendors to provide information management services,
  construction services, including engineering construction
  services, and other services the land office determines may be
  necessary to construct, repair, or rebuild property or
  infrastructure in the event of a natural disaster.
         (b)  The terms of a contract under Subsection (a) must
  provide that the contract is contingent on:
               (1)  the availability of funds;
               (2)  the occurrence of a natural disaster not later
  than 12 months after the effective date of the contract; and
               (3)  delivery of the services to an area of this state
  declared by the governor or president of the United States under law
  to be a disaster area as a result of the natural disaster.
         (c)  If the land office determines that federal funds may be
  used for a contract under Subsection (a), the land office shall
  ensure that the contract complies with the requirements of the
  Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 C.F.R. Chapter 1), or a
  successor regulation.
         (d)  In awarding a contract under this section, the land
  office shall consider and apply any applicable state law and rules
  of the land office relating to contracting with historically
  underutilized businesses.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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