Bill Text: TX SB1561 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the job order contracting procurement method to certain buildings and structures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1561 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1561-Introduced.html

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88R4778 JCG-F
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1561

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of the job order contracting
procurement method to certain buildings and structures.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2269.402, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2269.402. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER TO BUILDINGS;
EXCEPTIONS. (a) This subchapter applies only to a facility that is
a building, the design and construction of which is governed by
accepted building codes, or a structure or land, whether improved
or unimproved, that is associated with a building. This subchapter
does not apply to:
(1) a highway, road, street, bridge, utility, water
supply project, water plant, wastewater plant, water and wastewater
distribution or conveyance facility, wharf, dock, airport runway or
taxiway, drainage project, or related type of project associated
with civil engineering construction; or
(2) except as provided by Subsection (b), a building
or structure that is incidental to a project that is primarily a
civil engineering construction project.
(b) This subchapter applies to a building or structure
described by Subsection (a)(2) if the work under the job order
contract does not involve engineering or architectural services
that constitute the practice of engineering within the meaning of
Chapter 1001, Occupations Code, or the practice of architecture
within the meaning of Chapter 1051, Occupations Code.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.