Bill Text: TX HB194 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of ownership interests of disabled veterans in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB194 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB194-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 194

AN ACT
relating to the consideration of ownership interests of disabled
veterans in determining whether a business is a historically
underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2161.001(3), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(3) "Economically disadvantaged person" means a
person who:
(A) is economically disadvantaged because of the
person's identification as a member of a certain group, including:
(i) Black Americans;
(ii)[,] Hispanic Americans;
(iii)[,] women;
(iv)[,] Asian Pacific Americans;
(v)[, and] Native Americans;[,] and
(vi) veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C.
Section 101(2) who have suffered at least a 20 percent
service-connected disability as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section
101(16); and
(B) [who] has suffered the effects of
discriminatory practices or other similar insidious circumstances
over which the person has no control.
SECTION 2. Section 2161.002, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) The comptroller shall adopt rules to provide goals for
increasing the contract awards for the purchase of goods or
services by the commission and other state agencies to businesses
that qualify as historically underutilized businesses because the
businesses are owned or owned, operated, and controlled, as
applicable, wholly or partly by one or more veterans as defined by
38 U.S.C. Section 101(2) who have a service-connected disability as
defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(16). The goals established under
this subsection are in addition to the goals established under
Subsection (c) and the goals established under Subsection (c) may
not be reduced as a result of the establishment of goals under this
subsection.
SECTION 3. Section 2161.125, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2161.125. CATEGORIZATION OF HISTORICALLY
UNDERUTILIZED BUSINESSES [BY SEX, RACE, AND ETHNICITY]. The
comptroller, in cooperation with each state agency reporting under
this subchapter, shall categorize each historically underutilized
business included in a report under this subchapter by sex, race,
and ethnicity and by whether the business qualifies as a
historically underutilized business because it is owned or owned,
operated, and controlled, as applicable, wholly or partly by one or
more veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(2) who have
suffered at least a 20 percent service-connected disability as
defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(16).
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 194 was passed by the House on May 9,
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 109, Nays 22, 3 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 194 on May 24, 2013, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 194 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 137,
Nays 8, 2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 194 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
194 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor