Bill Text: TX HB3507 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to contracts for the construction, repair, and renovation of certain conservation and reclamation district facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3507 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3507-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3507 | ||
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| relating to contracts for the construction, repair, and renovation | ||
| of certain conservation and reclamation district facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 49.273(d) and (e), Water Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d) For contracts over $150,000 [ |
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| advertise the letting of the contract, including the general | ||
| conditions, time, and place of opening of sealed bids. The notice | ||
| must be published in one or more newspapers circulated in each | ||
| county in which the district is located. If there are more than | ||
| four counties in the district, notice may be published in any | ||
| newspaper with general circulation in the district. The notice | ||
| must be published once a week for two consecutive weeks before the | ||
| date that the bids are opened, and the first publication must be not | ||
| later than the 14th day before the date of the opening of the sealed | ||
| bids. | ||
| (e) For contracts over $25,000 but not more than $150,000 | ||
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| uniform written specifications from at least three bidders. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 49.273, Water Code, as amended by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a contract for which a governmental entity | ||
| first advertises or otherwise requests bids, proposals, offers, or | ||
| qualifications, or makes a similar solicitation, on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3507 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 6, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3507 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
