Bill Text: TX HB762 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on disaster remediation contracts following a locally declared disaster.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB762 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB762-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 762 | ||
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| relating to restrictions on disaster remediation contracts | ||
| following a locally declared disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 57.001(3), Business & Commerce Code, as | ||
| added by Chapter 979 (H.B. 1711), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "Natural disaster" means the occurrence of | ||
| widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property | ||
| related to any natural cause, including fire, flood, earthquake, | ||
| wind, storm, or wave action, that results in a disaster declaration | ||
| by the governor or a local disaster declaration by a county judge | ||
| under Chapter 418, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 762 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 762 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
