Bill Text: TX HB2958 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of project design and construction requirements to agencies or instrumentalities of, or agreements between, governmental entities subject to those requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2958 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2958-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Leach, Workman, Turner of Collin, Perry, | H.B. No. 2958 | ||
| Capriglione, et al. | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2958: | |||
| By: Harper-Brown | C.S.H.B. No. 2958 | ||
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| relating to the applicability of project design and construction | ||
| requirements to agencies or instrumentalities of, or agreements | ||
| between, governmental entities subject to those requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 271, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 271.909 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 271.909. PROJECT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS | ||
| APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN AGENCIES, INSTRUMENTALITIES, AND AGREEMENTS. | ||
| (a) In this section, "governmental entity" means a county, | ||
| municipality, district, or other political subdivision of this | ||
| state. | ||
| (b) The same state laws related to the design and | ||
| construction of projects, including the procurement of design and | ||
| construction services, that apply to a governmental entity apply to | ||
| an agency or instrumentality of the governmental entity, an | ||
| economic development corporation created by the governmental | ||
| entity under Subtitle C1, Title 12, or an alliance, agreement, | ||
| partnership, or agency created between the governmental entity and | ||
| one or more other governmental entities. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act affecting | ||
| contract requirements apply only to a contract for which an entity | ||
| first advertises or otherwise solicits bids, proposals, offers, or | ||
| qualifications or makes a similar solicitation on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A contract for which an entity first | ||
| advertises or otherwise solicits bids, proposals, offers, or | ||
| qualifications or makes a similar solicitation before the effective | ||
| date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
| advertisement or solicitation is made, and that law is continued in | ||
| effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
