Bill Text: TX HB507 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to notice for certain transactions involving local government entities in populous counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB507 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB507-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Button, Patrick, et al. | H.B. No. 507 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 507: | |||
| By: Munoz, Jr. | C.S.H.B. No. 507 | ||
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| relating to notice for certain transactions involving local | ||
| government entities in populous counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 44, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 44.0316 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 44.0316. NOTICE PUBLICATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) | ||
| If a school district located wholly or partly in a county with a | ||
| population of one million or more maintains an Internet website, | ||
| the district, instead of meeting the publication requirements under | ||
| Section 44.031(g), may: | ||
| (1) publish notice in a newspaper described by Section | ||
| 44.031(g) once not later than the 14th day before the bid receipt | ||
| deadline; and | ||
| (2) post notice continuously on the district website, | ||
| with a conspicuous link to the notice on the site's home page, for | ||
| at least 14 days immediately preceding the bid receipt deadline. | ||
| (b) The newspaper notice under Subsection (a) must include | ||
| the time and place at which the bids will be publicly opened and the | ||
| Internet website address for the procurement information. | ||
| (c) The board of trustees of a school district shall | ||
| publicly adopt standards to ensure that Internet posting of notice | ||
| under this section is archived. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 252, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 252.0411 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 252.0411. NOTICE PUBLICATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. | ||
| (a) If a municipality located wholly or partly in a county with a | ||
| population of one million or more maintains an Internet website, | ||
| the municipality, instead of meeting the publication requirements | ||
| under Section 252.041(a), may: | ||
| (1) publish notice in a newspaper described by Section | ||
| 252.041(a) once not later than the 14th day before the bid receipt | ||
| deadline; and | ||
| (2) post notice continuously on the municipal website, | ||
| with a conspicuous link to the notice on the site's home page, for | ||
| at least 14 days immediately preceding the bid receipt deadline. | ||
| (b) The newspaper notice under Subsection (a) must include | ||
| the time and place at which the bids will be publicly opened and the | ||
| Internet website address for the procurement information. | ||
| (c) The governing body of a municipality shall publicly | ||
| adopt standards to ensure that Internet posting of notice under | ||
| this section is archived. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 262, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 262.0251 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 262.0251. NOTICE PUBLICATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) | ||
| If a county with a population of one million or more maintains an | ||
| Internet website, the county, instead of meeting the publication | ||
| requirements under Section 262.025(a), may: | ||
| (1) publish notice in a newspaper described by Section | ||
| 262.025(a) once not later than the 14th day before the bid receipt | ||
| deadline; and | ||
| (2) post notice continuously on the county website, | ||
| with a conspicuous link to the notice on the site's home page, for | ||
| at least 14 days immediately preceding the bid receipt deadline. | ||
| (b) The newspaper notice under Subsection (a) must include | ||
| the time and place at which the bids will be publicly opened and the | ||
| Internet website address for the procurement information. | ||
| (c) The commissioners court shall publicly adopt standards | ||
| to ensure that Internet posting of notice under this section is | ||
| archived. | ||
| SECTION 4. Subchapter B, Chapter 271, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 271.0251 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 271.0251. NOTICE PUBLICATION IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) | ||
| If a governmental entity located wholly or partly in a county with a | ||
| population of one million or more maintains an Internet website, | ||
| the entity, instead of meeting the publication requirements under | ||
| Section 271.025(b), may: | ||
| (1) publish notice in a newspaper described by Section | ||
| 271.025(b) once not later than the 14th day before the bid receipt | ||
| deadline; and | ||
| (2) post notice continuously on the entity's website, | ||
| with a conspicuous link to the notice on the site's home page, for | ||
| at least 14 days immediately preceding the bid receipt deadline. | ||
| (b) The newspaper notice under Subsection (a) must include | ||
| the time and place at which the bids will be publicly opened and the | ||
| Internet website address for the procurement information. | ||
| (c) The governing body of the governmental entity shall | ||
| publicly adopt standards to ensure that Internet posting of notice | ||
| under this section is archived. | ||
| SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a notice required to be provided on or after September 1, 2011. A | ||
| notice required to be provided before September 1, 2011, is | ||
| governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and that | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
