By:  Holzheauser                                       H.B. No. 269
       73R854 GGS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the review of the uniform general conditions of state
    1-3  building construction contracts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5.26(b), State Purchasing and General
    1-6  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  The commission shall cause the uniform general
    1-9  conditions of state building construction contracts to be reviewed
   1-10  whenever in its opinion such review is desirable, but in no event
   1-11  less frequently than once every five years.  The review shall be
   1-12  made by a committee appointed by the commission consisting of the
   1-13  director of facilities construction and space management, who shall
   1-14  serve ex officio as chairman of the committee and who shall vote
   1-15  only in the event of a tie; two persons appointed by the commission
   1-16  from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President of the
   1-17  Texas Society of Architects; two persons appointed by the
   1-18  commission from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President
   1-19  of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers; two persons
   1-20  appointed by the commission from a list of nominees submitted to it
   1-21  by the Chairman of the Executive Council of the Texas Associated
   1-22  General Contractors Chapters; <and> two persons appointed by the
   1-23  commission from the list of nominees submitted to it by the
   1-24  Executive Secretary of the Mechanical Contractors Associations of
    2-1  Texas, Incorporated; and two persons appointed by the commission
    2-2  from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President of the
    2-3  Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas.  Members of any
    2-4  review committee appointed pursuant to this subsection shall serve
    2-5  without compensation but may be reimbursed for their necessary and
    2-6  actual expenses.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.