1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 113
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 14, 1993; January 19, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 February 3, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 1; February 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Rosson
1-22 Amend S.B. 113 as follows:
1-23 On page 1, line 54, strike the word "and".
1-24 On page 1, line 56, insert the following between "Texas" and the
1-25 period:
1-26 and two persons appointed by the commission from a list of nominees
1-27 submitted to it by the executive secretary of the Texas Building
1-28 and Construction Trades Council
1-29 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-30 AN ACT
1-31 relating to the review of the uniform general conditions of state
1-32 building construction contracts.
1-33 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-34 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 5.26, State Purchasing
1-35 and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-36 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-37 (b) The commission shall cause the uniform general
1-38 conditions of state building construction contracts to be reviewed
1-39 whenever in its opinion such review is desirable, but in no event
1-40 less frequently than once every five years. The review shall be
1-41 made by a committee appointed by the commission consisting of the
1-42 director of facilities construction and space management, who shall
1-43 serve ex officio as chairman of the committee and who shall vote
1-44 only in the event of a tie; two persons appointed by the commission
1-45 from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President of the
1-46 Texas Society of Architects; two persons appointed by the
1-47 commission from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President
1-48 of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers; two persons
1-49 appointed by the commission from a list of nominees submitted to it
1-50 by the Chairman of the Executive Council of the Texas Associated
1-51 General Contractors Chapters; <and> two persons appointed by the
1-52 commission from the list of nominees submitted to it by the
1-53 Executive Secretary of the Mechanical Contractors Associations of
1-54 Texas, Incorporated; and two persons appointed by the commission
1-55 from a list of nominees submitted to it by the President of the
1-56 Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas. Members of any
1-57 review committee appointed pursuant to this subsection shall serve
1-58 without compensation but may be reimbursed for their necessary and
1-59 actual expenses.
1-60 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-61 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-65 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-66 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 Austin,
2-1 Texas
2-2 February 3, 1993
2-3 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-4 President of the Senate
2-5 Sir:
2-6 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-7 113, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-8 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-9 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-10 Harris of
2-11 Dallas, Chairman
2-12 * * * * *
2-13 WITNESSES
2-14 FOR AGAINST ON
2-15 ___________________________________________________________________
2-16 Name: Russell Bates x
2-17 Representing: State Assn. Builders & Contrac
2-18 City: Austin
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