Bill Text: TX SB836 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a contract or other agreement between certain governmental entities and a credit services organization or related business.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB836 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB836-Introduced.html
85R6865 TSR-D | ||
By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 836 |
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relating to a contract or other agreement between certain | ||
governmental entities and a credit services organization or related | ||
business. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 2252, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2252.909 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2252.909. CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED. (a) In this | ||
section: | ||
(1) "Credit access business" has the meaning assigned | ||
by Section 393.601, Finance Code. | ||
(2) "Credit services organization" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 393.001, Finance Code. | ||
(3) "Governmental entity" includes a municipality, a | ||
county, a state agency, and a toll project entity as defined by | ||
Section 372.001, Transportation Code. | ||
(b) A governmental entity may not enter into any contract or | ||
other agreement with: | ||
(1) a credit access business or other credit services | ||
organization; | ||
(2) a business that operates in the same retail space | ||
as a credit access business or other credit services organization; | ||
or | ||
(3) a business that is owned by a business entity that | ||
owns a credit access business or other credit services | ||
organization. | ||
(c) A business that enters into any contract or other | ||
agreement with a governmental entity may not subcontract with a | ||
credit access business or other credit services organization to | ||
perform work under the contract or agreement. | ||
(d) A governmental entity shall include, as a term of any | ||
contract or other agreement entered into by the entity, a provision | ||
that prohibits a party to the contract or agreement from | ||
subcontracting with a credit access business or other credit | ||
services organization to perform work under the contract or | ||
agreement. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a contract or other agreement that is entered into or renewed on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. A contract or other | ||
agreement entered into or renewed before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |