82R4522 CJC-F
By: Miles H.B. No. 2992
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to planning and administration of the state's historically
underutilized business program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2161.002(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) In adopting rules to administer this chapter, the
comptroller [commission] shall adopt rules that are based on the
results of the disparity study commissioned by the comptroller and
["State of Texas Disparity Study, A Report to the Texas Legislature
as Mandated by H.B. 2626, 73rd Legislature, December 1994"(]
prepared by Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd. [National Economic
Research Associates, Inc.).] The comptroller [commission] shall
revise the rules in response to the findings of any updates of the
study that are prepared on behalf of the state.
SECTION 2. The comptroller shall commission a disparity
study to be prepared by Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd., and
delivered to the comptroller not later than December 1, 2011.
SECTION 3. Not later than January 1, 2012, the comptroller
shall adopt rules under Section 2161.002(c), Government Code, as
amended by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.