By: Harper-Brown (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) H.B. No. 477
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 2013;
April 22, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Administration; April 29, 2013, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 29, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to advertise on leased
vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 263.251(a) and (b), Local Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The commissioners court of a county may adopt a
procedure by which the county may:
(1) lease to another entity advertising space located:
(A) in or on a building or part of a building
owned by the county;
(B) on a vehicle owned by the county; [or]
(C) on an official county website; or
(D) on a vehicle leased by the county, with the
vehicle owner's consent; or
(2) sell advertising space located on correspondence
distributed by the county through the United States Postal Service.
(b) The procedure must include a requirement that the county
publish, before a sale or lease of advertising space is made, a
notice of its intent to sell or lease the advertising space. The
notice must:
(1) be published:
(A) at least one time in a newspaper of general
circulation in the county not earlier than the 30th day or later
than the 14th day before the date the award of the sale or lease is
made; and
(B) on the county's official website
continuously for the 14 days immediately before the date the award
of the sale or lease is made;
(2) include a description of the advertising space,
including its location and a description of the part of any real or
personal property that the advertising space occupies; and
(3) include a description of the procedure by which
bids or proposals for the sale or lease may be submitted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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