82R8369 MCK-D
By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 831
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, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subdivision (3) and adding Subdivision (5) 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 disabled veterans, and who has suffered
the effects of discriminatory practices or other similar insidious
circumstances over which the person has no control.
(5) "Disabled veteran" means a veteran of the armed
services of the United States who is classified as disabled by the
Veterans Administration or its successor or the branch of the armed
services in which the veteran served and whose disability is
service-connected. The term does not include a person having a less
than honorable discharge from military service.
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 disabled veterans.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.