Sec. 2155.268.  USE OF STATE AGENCY BIDDERS LIST.  (a)  A state agency may not maintain and use its own bidders list.  The prohibition of this subsection does not apply to the Texas Department of Transportation.
(b)  A state agency may supplement the bidders list with its own list of historically underutilized businesses if it determines that the supplementation will increase the number of historically underutilized businesses that submit bids.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1206, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 426, Sec. 17, eff. June 18, 1999;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1499, Sec. 1.18, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 118, Sec. 1.05, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.