2015S0395-1 03/05/15
By: Huffines S.B. No. 1183
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to
enter into certain contracts with private vendors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 11, Parks and Wildlife
Code, is amended by adding Section 11.157 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.157. CONTRACTS WITH PRIVATE VENDORS. (a) The
department may contract with private vendors for the construction,
maintenance, or operation of facilities such as lodges or
recreation centers.
(b) A contract entered into by the department with a private
vendor under this section:
(1) must comply with any law generally applicable to a
contract for services entered into by the department; and
(2) must require the private vendor to render at least
quarterly to the department periodic accounts that accurately
detail all material transactions, including information reasonably
required by the department to support fees that are collected by the
vendor, and to regularly remit all money payable to the department
under the contract.
(c) A contract entered into with a private vendor under this
section may provide for the private vendor to recover all costs
incurred by the vendor under the contract. After the vendor has
recovered all of its costs incurred under the contract, the vendor
and the department shall share in the revenue produced by the
contract in proportions to be prescribed by the contract.
(d) An indebtedness, liability, or obligation of a private
vendor incurred in the execution of a contract under this section
does not create a debt or other liability of the department.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.