| 1 | 1 | | By: Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 762 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Economic Development; May 9, 2013, reported favorably by the |
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| 5 | 5 | | following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 9, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to restrictions on disaster remediation contracts |
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| 11 | 11 | | following a locally declared disaster. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 57.001(3), Business & Commerce Code, as |
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| 14 | 14 | | added by Chapter 979 (H.B. 1711), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, |
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| 15 | 15 | | Regular Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (3) "Natural disaster" means the occurrence of |
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| 17 | 17 | | widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property |
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| 18 | 18 | | related to any natural cause, including fire, flood, earthquake, |
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| 19 | 19 | | wind, storm, or wave action, that results in a disaster declaration |
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| 20 | 20 | | by the governor or a local disaster declaration by a county judge |
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| 21 | 21 | | under Chapter 418, Government Code. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 23 | 23 | | * * * * * |
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