82R6740 MCK-F
By: Guillen H.B. No. 1021
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to considering ownership interests of disabled persons 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 is economically disadvantaged because of the person's
identification as a member of a certain group, including Black
Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, Asian Pacific Americans,
[and] Native Americans, and persons with a disability as defined by
42 U.S.C. Section 12102, and who has suffered the effects of
discriminatory practices or other similar insidious circumstances
over which the person has no control.
SECTION 2. 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 historically underutilized
business derives its status as a historically underutilized
business because it is owned or owned, operated, and controlled, as
applicable, wholly or partly by one or more persons with a
disability as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 12102.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.