Bill Text: TX HB2705 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to job order contracting for certain airport facilities by certain joint airport boards.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB2705 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2705-Comm_Sub.html

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86R19632 BEE-F
By: Capriglione, Goldman, H.B. No. 2705
J. Johnson of Dallas
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2705:
By: Landgraf C.S.H.B. No. 2705

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to job order contracting for certain airport facilities by
certain joint airport boards.
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. 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. Except as
provided by Section 22.0741, Transportation Code, this [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) a building or structure that is incidental to a
project that is primarily a civil engineering construction project.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 22, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 22.0741 to read as follows:
Sec. 22.0741. JOB ORDER CONTRACTING BY CERTAIN JOINT
AIRPORT BOARDS. (a) This section applies only to a joint board:
(1) for which the constituent agencies are populous
home-rule municipalities; and
(2) that operates a facility that is:
(A) an airport roadway, bridge, runway, taxiway,
or related type of project associated with civil engineering
construction; or
(B) a building or structure incidental to a
facility described by Paragraph (A).
(b) Notwithstanding Section 2269.402, Government Code, a
joint board to which this section applies may award a job order
contract as provided by Subchapter I, Chapter 2269, Government
Code, for the maintenance, repair, alteration, renovation,
remediation, or minor construction of a facility described by
Subsection (a)(2) if the individual job, task, or purchase order
for the maintenance, repair, alteration, renovation, remediation,
or construction does not exceed $300,000.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.