Bill Text: TX SB327 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to including certain veterans service organizations as small businesses for the purpose of state contracting.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB327 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB327-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 327 |
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relating to including certain veterans service organizations as | ||
small businesses for the purpose of state contracting. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 2155.505, Government | ||
Code, is amended by amending Subdivision (2) and adding Subdivision | ||
(3) to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Small business" means a small business concern as | ||
defined by regulations of the United States Small Business | ||
Administration in 13 C.F.R. Section 121.201 or a veterans service | ||
agency. | ||
(3) "Veterans service agency" means a community-based | ||
organization that: | ||
(A) is exempt from taxation under Section 501(a), | ||
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as an organization described in | ||
Section 501(c)(3) of that code; | ||
(B) has as its principal purpose to provide | ||
housing, substance abuse treatment, case management services, and | ||
employment training to low-income veterans, disabled veterans, and | ||
homeless veterans and their families; and | ||
(C) employs veterans to provide at least 75 | ||
percent of the hours of direct labor by individuals required to | ||
produce goods or provide services required under a contract entered | ||
into under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 2155.505, Government | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a contract for the | ||
procurement of goods and services for which the solicitation of | ||
bids or proposals, request for proposals, or similar required | ||
notification as to the goods or services is published on or after | ||
September 1, 2011. A contract for the procurement of goods and | ||
services for which the solicitation of bids or proposals, request | ||
for proposals, or similar required notification as to the goods or | ||
services is published before September 1, 2011, is governed by the | ||
law in effect at the time the solicitation, request, or | ||
notification is published, 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, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 327 passed the Senate on | ||
April 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 327 passed the House on | ||
May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |