1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 461 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1993; February 25, 1993, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 17, 1993, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 17, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Armbrister x 1-9 Leedom x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Madla x 1-13 Moncrief x 1-14 Patterson x 1-15 Rosson x 1-16 Shapiro x 1-17 Wentworth x 1-18 Whitmire x 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to the construction of public works. 1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-23 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 19, The Texas Engineering 1-24 Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-25 amended to read as follows: 1-26 (a) It is unlawful for this State or for any of its 1-27 political subdivisions, including any county, city, or town, to 1-28 engage in the construction of any public work involving 1-29 professional engineering, where public health, public welfare or 1-30 public safety is involved, unless the engineering plans and 1-31 specifications and estimates have been prepared by, and the 1-32 engineering construction is to be executed under the direct 1-33 supervision of a registered professional engineer. However, 1-34 nothing in this Act shall be held to apply to any public work 1-35 involving structural, electrical, or mechanical engineering wherein 1-36 the contemplated expenditure for the completed project does not 1-37 exceed Eight Thousand ($8,000) Dollars. Nothing in this Act shall 1-38 be held to apply to other public works wherein the contemplated 1-39 expenditure for the completed project does not exceed Twenty 1-40 Thousand ($20,000) Dollars. 1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-46 * * * * * 1-47 Austin, 1-48 Texas 1-49 March 17, 1993 1-50 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-51 President of the Senate 1-52 Sir: 1-53 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-54 referred S.B. No. 461, have had the same under consideration, and I 1-55 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-56 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-57 Armbrister, 1-58 Chairman 1-59 * * * * * 1-60 WITNESSES 1-61 FOR AGAINST ON 1-62 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-63 Name: James McCarley Assist. City Manager x 1-64 Representing: City of Plano 1-65 City: Plano 1-66 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-67 Name: Cary Bovey x 1-68 Representing: Texas Municipal League 2-1 City: Austin 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-3 Name: Gerhardt Schulle x 2-4 Representing: Tx Soc of Professional 2-5 Engin. 2-6 City: Austin 2-7 -------------------------------------------------------------------