I mean, all Texans should be able to participate in our bidding process and our procurement process. And we wanted to make sure that we didn't, you know, have any discrimination. I mean, Part of this statute assumed that based on your skin color, that you were economically disadvantaged. Well, that's discriminatory to make that assumption. And so. And we had no other criteria when I asked the question is, you know, how do we conduct this and how do we confirm the economic disadvantage? (08:51–08:59)
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