Tex. Local Government Code § 262.0271
This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 262.0271, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.
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§ 262.0271. CONSIDERATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDED BY BIDDER.
Official statutory text
(a) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 285, Sec. 24, eff. September 1, 2011.
(b) In purchasing items under this chapter through a competitive bidding process, if a county receives one or more bids from a bidder who provides reasonable health insurance coverage to its employees and requires a subcontractor the bidder intends to use to provide reasonable health insurance coverage to the subcontractor's employees and whose bid is within five percent of the lowest and best bid price received by the county from a bidder who does not provide or require reasonable health insurance coverage, the commissioners court of the county may give preference to the bidder who provides and requires reasonable health insurance coverage.
(c) This section does not prohibit a county from rejecting all bids.
(b) In purchasing items under this chapter through a competitive bidding process, if a county receives one or more bids from a bidder who provides reasonable health insurance coverage to its employees and requires a subcontractor the bidder intends to use to provide reasonable health insurance coverage to the subcontractor's employees and whose bid is within five percent of the lowest and best bid price received by the county from a bidder who does not provide or require reasonable health insurance coverage, the commissioners court of the county may give preference to the bidder who provides and requires reasonable health insurance coverage.
(c) This section does not prohibit a county from rejecting all bids.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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