Bill Text: TX SB176 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of certain consultants' reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB176-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of certain consultants' reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB176-Comm_Sub.html
By: Carona | S.B. No. 176 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2013; January 29, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Open Government; | ||
March 4, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 4, 2013, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 176 | By: Nelson |
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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. 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. | ||
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. | ||
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