Sec. 533.017. PARTICIPATION IN DEPARTMENT PURCHASING CONTRACTS OR GROUP PURCHASING PROGRAM  


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  • The department may allow a state agency, local agency, local mental health authority, or local mental retardation authority that expends public money to purchase goods or services in connection with providing or coordinating the provision of mental health or mental retardation services to purchase goods or services with the public money by participating in:

    (1) a contract the department has made to purchase goods or services; or

    (2) a group purchasing program established or designated by the department that offers discounts to providers of mental health or mental retardation services.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1045, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.