Bill Text: TX SB783 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 783 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the purchase of iron and steel products made in the United States for certain projects by public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB783 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB783-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Creighton	S.B. No. 783
	(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2021; March 11, 2021,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
	March 31, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; March 31, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the purchase of iron and steel products made in the
	United States for certain projects by public institutions of higher
	education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2252.201(1), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(1) "Governmental entity" means this state or a board,
	commission, department, office, or other agency in the executive
	branch of state government, including an institution of higher
	education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. The term
	does not include a political subdivision.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	bid documents submitted or contracts entered into on or after the
	effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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