Bill Text: TX HB3406 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to workers' compensation insurance coverage and bid bonding requirements for small municipal construction projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB3406 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3406-Introduced.html
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| By: Spiller | H.B. No. 3406 | |
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| relating to workers' compensation insurance coverage and bid | ||
| bonding requirements for small municipal construction projects. | ||
| 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. WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND BID BONDING | ||
| REQUIREMENTS FOR SMALL MUNICIPAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. (a) In | ||
| this section, "project" includes all work to be completed on a | ||
| construction project for a municipality at one location within 12 | ||
| months of the date the work begins. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, for a construction | ||
| project contracted for an amount that is less than one percent of | ||
| the total amount of a municipality's most recently adopted budget, | ||
| the municipality is not required to: | ||
| (1) ensure that the contractor is covered by workers' | ||
| compensation insurance coverage; or | ||
| (2) require the contractor to obtain a performance | ||
| bond. | ||
| (c) For the purpose of determining the contracted amount of | ||
| a construction project under Subsection (b), a municipality may not | ||
| aggregate work from more than one project. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
