Bill Text: TX HB3688 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the process for the selection of construction managers-at-risk used by governmental entities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Government Transparency & Operation [HB3688 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3688-Introduced.html

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84R11012 TSR-F
By: Frank H.B. No. 3688

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the process for the selection of construction
managers-at-risk used by governmental entities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2269.252(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The governmental entity's architect or engineer for a
project may not serve, alone or in combination with another person,
as the construction manager-at-risk unless the architect or
engineer is hired to serve as the construction manager-at-risk
under a separate, [or] concurrent, or single selection process
conducted in accordance with this subchapter. This subsection does
not prohibit the governmental entity's architect or engineer from
providing customary construction phase services under the
architect's or engineer's original professional service agreement
in accordance with applicable licensing laws.
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, 2015.