2025 Texas sessionsRegular and both called sessions have ended. This index covers House and Senate bills, not resolutions. Statuses come from official reports.

2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB3623

HB3623 removes telegraph from the authorized ways the comptroller and state agencies solicit bids under the state's open-market purchasing procedures.

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Official caption: Relating to the manner of solicitation of bids for certain purchases by the comptroller of public accounts and state agencies.

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HB3623 removes telegraph from the authorized ways the comptroller and state agencies solicit bids under the state's open-market purchasing procedures.
This is a narrow cleanup, not a requirement that every bid be submitted online or a repeal of competition.

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What does it do?

HB3623 removes telegraph from the authorized ways the comptroller and state agencies solicit bids under the state’s open-market purchasing procedures. Direct mail, telephone, fax and online electronic transmission remain available. It also modernizes the spelling of “online.” The change took effect September 1, 2025. Final law.

This is a narrow cleanup, not a requirement that every bid be submitted online or a repeal of competition. The surrounding open-market provisions still call, to the extent possible, for at least three competitive bids and an award offering the state’s best value. HB3623 changes the solicitation-method list, not those standards. Open-market purchasing provisions.

What changed along the way?

The introduced, House committee and House-passed texts are identical in substance; the Senate and final versions preserve the same two sections. The official index lists no amendments. The House passed the bill 133–1 and the Senate 31–0. Introduced text; text versions; amendment index; history.

For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.

Official bill versions

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Purchasing staff and vendors get a statute that no longer lists an obsolete communication method. The two available fiscal notes anticipate no significant state fiscal impact, assume any costs can be absorbed with existing resources, and anticipate no local-government fiscal impact. They do not identify a dollar savings figure, and the bill creates no new procurement platform or appropriation. Latest fiscal note.

Review boundary: This explanation concerns the named open-market procedure, not every state contracting requirement or the acceptance rules for a particular solicitation.

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