86R5806 JXC-F
By: Landgraf H.B. No. 2863
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of competitive bidding requirements
to expenditures for certain municipal utility facility
relocations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 252.022, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) This chapter does not apply to an expenditure for the
relocation or adjustment of a municipally owned utility facility if
the relocation or adjustment:
(1) is required as a result of the construction of a
state transportation project; and
(2) is performed by the entity procured by the state to
construct the state transportation project or a subcontractor of
that entity.
SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the
change in law made by this Act applies only to an expenditure under
a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
(b) An expenditure under a contract for which a request for
bids, proposals, offers, or qualifications or a similar
solicitation was made before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.