81R5065 EAH-D
By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 615
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to allowing a county to consider health insurance benefits
provided by a bidder to its employees when awarding a purchasing
contract.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 262.0271(b), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) In purchasing items under this chapter through a
competitive bidding process, if a county receives one or more bids
from a bidder who provides reasonable [comparable] health insurance
coverage to its employees and requires a subcontractor the bidder
intends to use to provide reasonable [comparable] health insurance
coverage to the subcontractor's employees and whose bid is within
10 [five] percent of the lowest bid price received by the county
from a bidder who does not provide or require reasonable
[comparable] health insurance coverage, the commissioners court of
the county may give preference to the bidder who provides and
requires reasonable [comparable] health insurance coverage.
SECTION 2. Section 262.0271(a), Local Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a contract awarded on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.