Bill Text: TX HB2273 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a contract or other agreement between certain governmental entities and a credit services organization or credit access business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB2273 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2273-Introduced.html
  84R3536 DDT-D
 
  By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 2273
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a contract or other agreement between certain
  governmental entities and a credit services organization or credit
  access 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 2252.908 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2252.908.  CERTAIN CONTRACTS PROHIBITED. (a)  In this
  section, "governmental entity" includes 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 a credit services organization or a credit
  access business, as those terms are defined by Chapter 393, Finance
  Code.
         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, 2015.
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