82R7266 VOO-D
By: Farias H.B. No. 1096
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to considering ownership interests of certain disabled
veterans 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 veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C.
Section 101(2) who have a service-connected disability as defined
by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(16), 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 business qualifies as a
historically underutilized business because it is owned or owned,
operated, and controlled, as applicable, wholly or partly by one or
more veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section 101(2) who have a
service-connected disability as defined by 38 U.S.C. Section
101(16).
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.