Bill Text: TX SB1107 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the preference given by state and local governmental entities to agricultural products produced or grown in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1107 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1107-Engrossed.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1107 |
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relating to the preference given by state and local governmental | ||
entities to agricultural products produced or grown in this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 44.042, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district that purchases agricultural products | ||
shall give preference to those produced, processed, or grown in | ||
this state if the cost to the school district is equal and the | ||
quality is equal. A school district that purchases agricultural | ||
products may give preference to products produced, processed, or | ||
grown in this state if the cost to the school district does not | ||
exceed 107 percent of the cost of agricultural products produced or | ||
grown outside of this state and the quality is equal. | ||
(b) If agricultural products produced, processed, or grown | ||
in this state are not given a preference under Subsection (a) [ |
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give preference to agricultural products produced, processed, or | ||
grown in other states of the United States over foreign products if | ||
the cost to the school district is equal and the quality is equal. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 2155.444, | ||
Government Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission and all state agencies making purchases | ||
of goods, including agricultural products, shall give preference to | ||
those produced or grown in this state or offered by Texas bidders as | ||
follows: | ||
(1) goods produced or offered by a Texas bidder that is | ||
owned by a service-disabled veteran who is a Texas resident shall be | ||
given a first preference and goods produced in this state or offered | ||
by other Texas bidders shall be given second preference, if the cost | ||
to the state and quality are equal; and | ||
(2) agricultural products grown in this state shall be | ||
given first preference if the cost to the state and quality are | ||
equal, and may be given first preference if the cost to the state | ||
does not exceed 107 percent of the cost of agricultural products | ||
grown outside of this state and the quality is equal, and | ||
agricultural products offered by Texas bidders shall be given | ||
second preference, if the cost to the state and quality are equal. | ||
(b) If goods, including agricultural products, produced or | ||
grown in this state or offered by Texas bidders are not given | ||
preference under Subsection (a) [ |
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or grown in other states of the United States shall be given | ||
preference over foreign products if the cost to the state and | ||
quality are equal. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 271.909 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 271.909. PREFERENCE FOR TEXAS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. | ||
(a) In this section, "local governmental entity" means a | ||
municipality, county, special-purpose district or authority, or | ||
other political subdivision of this state. The term does not | ||
include a school district. | ||
(b) A local governmental entity that purchases agricultural | ||
products shall give preference to those produced or grown in this | ||
state if the cost to the local governmental entity is equal and the | ||
quality is equal. | ||
(c) A local governmental entity that purchases agricultural | ||
products may give preference to those products produced or grown in | ||
this state if the cost to the local governmental entity does not | ||
exceed 107 percent of the cost of agricultural products produced or | ||
grown outside of this state and the quality is equal. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a contract for which a state agency or local governmental entity | ||
first advertises or otherwise solicits bids, proposals, offers, or | ||
qualifications on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
contract for which a state agency or local governmental entity | ||
first advertised or otherwise solicited bids, proposals, offers, or | ||
qualifications before that date is governed by the law in effect | ||
when the first advertisement or solicitation was given, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |