Section 262.0271 - Consideration of Health Insurance Provided By Bidder(a) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 285, Sec. 24, eff.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.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 262.0271
Amended By Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 285, Sec. 11, eff. 9/1/2011.Amended By Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 285, Sec. 24, eff. 9/1/2011.Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1299, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2005.