Bill Text: TX SB176 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of certain consultants' reports.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB176-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 176 | ||
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| relating to the distribution of certain consultants' reports. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2254, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2254.041 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2254.041. DISTRIBUTION OF CONSULTANT REPORTS. (a) A | ||
| consulting services contract must include provisions that allow the | ||
| state agency contracting with the consultant and any other state | ||
| agency and the legislature, at the contracting state agency's | ||
| discretion, to distribute the consultant report, if any, and to | ||
| post the report on the agency's Internet website or the website of a | ||
| standing committee of the legislature. | ||
| (b) This section does not affect the application of Chapter | ||
| 552 to a consultant's report. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of | ||
| this section, Section 2254.041, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to a consulting services contract entered into on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. A consulting services | ||
| contract entered into before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the contract is entered | ||
| into, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| (b) Section 2254.041, Government Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| does not apply to a consulting services contract entered into on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act if: | ||
| (1) the state agency entered into negotiations for the | ||
| consulting services contract before the effective date of this Act; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) the contract is executed before December 31, 2013. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 176 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; | ||
| May 15, 2013, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and | ||
| requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 16, 2013, House | ||
| granted request of the Senate; May 24, 2013, Senate adopted | ||
| Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 31, | ||
| Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 176 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 8, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting; May 16, 2013, House granted request | ||
| of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; | ||
| May 23, 2013, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
