Bill Text: TX SB1720 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the threshold contract amount at which a county is required to engage in a competitive purchasing procedure for certain purchases.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1720 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1720-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Lucio S.B. No. 1720
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2019; March 14, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 3, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 3, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the threshold contract amount at which a county is
required to engage in a competitive purchasing procedure for
certain purchases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 252.312(b) and (c), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) If the county road engineer so recommends and the
commissioners court considers it to be in the best interest of the
county, a purchase in an amount of $50,000 [$25,000] or less may be
made through negotiation by the commissioners court or the court's
authorized representative on requisition to be approved by the
commissioners court or the county auditor without advertising for
competitive bids.
(c) A purchase may not be divided or reduced to avoid the
competitive bidding requirement on a purchase that would otherwise
cost more than $50,000 [$25,000].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a purchase commenced on or after September 1, 2019. A purchase
for which competitive bids are advertised before September 1, 2019,
is governed by the law in effect on the date the bids were
advertised, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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