Bill Text: TX HB3730 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain privatization of maintenance contracts awarded by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3730 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3730-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain privatization of maintenance contracts awarded by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3730 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3730-Comm_Sub.html
By: Martinez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.B. No. 3730 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2011; | ||
May 12, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 20, 2011, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2011, | ||
sent to printer.) |
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relating to certain privatization of maintenance contracts awarded | ||
by the Texas Department of Transportation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 223.042(c), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The department may award a contract under this section | ||
as a purchase of service under Subtitle D, Title 10, Government | ||
Code, if the department: | ||
(1) estimates that the contract will involve an amount | ||
for which a formal solicitation process for the purchase of | ||
services is not required under rules relating to the delegation of | ||
purchasing authority to state agencies adopted by the comptroller | ||
under Subchapter C, Chapter 2155, Government Code [ |
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(2) determines that the competitive bidding procedure | ||
in this chapter is not practical. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
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