Bill Text: TX HB5200 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consideration of location of an offeror's principal place of business in awarding certain municipal contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB5200 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5200-Introduced.html
By: Bernal | H.B. No. 5200 |
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relating to consideration of location of an offeror's principal | ||
place of business in awarding certain municipal contracts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 271.9052 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 271.9052. CONSIDERATION OF LOCATION OF OFFEROR'S | ||
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN AWARDING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL | ||
CONTRACTS. (a) This section applies only to a municipality that | ||
contains more than 75 percent of the population of a county with a | ||
population of 1.5 million or more. | ||
(b) In purchasing as authorized under this title any | ||
personal property that is not affixed to real property or services | ||
other than professional services, if a municipality that solicits | ||
requests for proposals receives one or more proposals from an | ||
offeror whose principal place of business is in the municipality, | ||
the municipality may consider, as a percentage of the evaluation | ||
factors in accordance with Subsection (c), an offeror's principal | ||
place of business unless the contract is for construction services | ||
in an amount of $100,000 or more. | ||
(c) If a municipality elects to consider an offeror's | ||
principal place of business under Subsection (b) and scores an | ||
offeror's proposal on a 100-point scale, the municipality shall | ||
assign: | ||
(1) 10 points to an offeror with a principal place of | ||
business in the municipality; or | ||
(2) five points to an offeror who employs: | ||
(A) at least 20 percent of the offeror's | ||
employees in the municipality; or | ||
(B) at least 100 employees in the municipality. | ||
(d) This section does not prohibit a municipality from | ||
rejecting any proposal. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |