S.B. No. 113
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the review of the uniform general conditions of state
    1-2  building construction contracts.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 5.26, State Purchasing
    1-5  and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-6  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The commission shall cause the uniform general
    1-8  conditions of state building construction contracts to be reviewed
    1-9  whenever in its opinion such review is desirable, but in no event
   1-10  less frequently than once every five years.  The review shall be
   1-11  made by a committee appointed by the commission consisting of the
   1-12  director of facilities construction and space management, who shall
   1-13  serve ex officio as chairman of the committee and who shall vote
   1-14  only in the event of a tie; one person <two persons> appointed by
   1-15  the commission from a list of nominees submitted to it by the
   1-16  President of the Texas Society of Architects; one person <two
   1-17  persons> appointed by the commission from a list of nominees
   1-18  submitted to it by the President of the Texas Society of
   1-19  Professional Engineers; one person <two persons> appointed by the
   1-20  commission from a list of nominees submitted to it by the Chairman
   1-21  of the Executive Council of the Texas Associated General
   1-22  Contractors Chapters; one person <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; one person appointed by the commission from a
    2-2  list of nominees submitted to it by the Executive Secretary of the
    2-3  Texas Building and Construction Trades Council; one person
    2-4  appointed by the commission from a list of nominees submitted to it
    2-5  by the President of the Associated Builders and Contractors of
    2-6  Texas; one person appointed by the commission from a list of
    2-7  nominees submitted to it by the Executive Director of the National
    2-8  Association of Minority Contractors residing in Texas; one person
    2-9  appointed by the commission representing an institution of higher
   2-10  education, as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; one person
   2-11  appointed by the commission representing a state agency that has a
   2-12  substantial ongoing construction program; and one person appointed
   2-13  by the commission representing the attorney general's office.
   2-14  Members of any review committee appointed pursuant to this
   2-15  subsection shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed
   2-16  for their necessary and actual expenses.
   2-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-23  passage, and it is so enacted.