Bill Text: TX SB252 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting governmental contracts with a company doing business with Iran, Sudan, or a foreign terrorist organization.
Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB252 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB252-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 252 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting governmental contracts with a company doing | ||
| business with Iran, Sudan, or a foreign terrorist organization. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2252, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter F to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER F. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTS WITH CERTAIN COMPANIES | ||
| Sec. 2252.151. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Company" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 806.001. | ||
| (2) "Foreign terrorist organization" means an | ||
| organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the | ||
| United States secretary of state as authorized by 8 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 1189. | ||
| (3) "Governmental contract" means a contract awarded | ||
| by a governmental entity for general construction, an improvement, | ||
| a service, or a public works project or for a purchase of supplies, | ||
| materials, or equipment. The term includes a contract to obtain a | ||
| professional or consulting service subject to Chapter 2254. | ||
| (4) "Governmental entity" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 2252.001. | ||
| Sec. 2252.152. CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES ENGAGED IN BUSINESS | ||
| WITH IRAN, SUDAN, OR FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION PROHIBITED. A | ||
| governmental entity may not enter into a governmental contract with | ||
| a company that is identified on a list prepared and maintained under | ||
| Section 806.051, 807.051, or 2252.153. | ||
| Sec. 2252.153. LISTED COMPANIES. The comptroller shall | ||
| prepare and maintain, and make available to each governmental | ||
| entity, a list of companies known to have contracts with or provide | ||
| supplies or services to a foreign terrorist organization. | ||
| Sec. 2252.154. EXCEPTION. Notwithstanding any other law, a | ||
| company that the United States government affirmatively declares to | ||
| be excluded from its federal sanctions regime relating to Sudan, | ||
| its federal sanctions regime relating to Iran, or any federal | ||
| sanctions regime relating to a foreign terrorist organization is | ||
| not subject to contract prohibition under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 2252, Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a contract or purchase for which | ||
| a governmental entity first advertises or otherwise solicits bids, | ||
| proposals, offers, or qualifications on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 252 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 15, 2017, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 252 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 9, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, | ||
| Nays 0, three present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
