Bill Text: TX SB1998 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of location of an offeror's principal place of business in awarding certain municipal contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-18 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1998 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1998-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1998 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2015; March 25, 2015, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
| Relations; May 6, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
| Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; | ||
| May 6, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1998 | By: Lucio | |
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| relating to consideration of location of an offeror's principal | ||
| place of business in awarding certain municipal contracts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 271.9052 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 271.9052. CONSIDERATION OF LOCATION OF OFFEROR'S | ||
| PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN AWARDING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL | ||
| CONTRACTS. (a) This section applies only to a municipality that | ||
| contains more than 75 percent of the population of a county with a | ||
| population of 1.5 million or more. | ||
| (b) In purchasing as authorized under this title any | ||
| personal property that is not affixed to real property or services | ||
| other than professional services, if a municipality that solicits | ||
| requests for proposals receives one or more proposals from an | ||
| offeror whose principal place of business is in the municipality, | ||
| the municipality may consider, as a percentage of the evaluation | ||
| factors in accordance with Subsection (c), an offeror's principal | ||
| place of business unless the contract is for construction services | ||
| in an amount of $100,000 or more. | ||
| (c) If a municipality elects to consider an offeror's | ||
| principal place of business under Subsection (b) and scores an | ||
| offeror's proposal on a 100-point scale, the municipality shall | ||
| assign: | ||
| (1) 10 points to an offeror with a principal place of | ||
| business in the municipality; or | ||
| (2) five points to an offeror who employs: | ||
| (A) at least 20 percent of the offeror's | ||
| employees in the municipality; or | ||
| (B) at least 100 employees in the municipality. | ||
| (d) This section does not prohibit a municipality from | ||
| rejecting any proposal. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
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