By Brown S.B. No. 282 74R1407 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring each state agency to consult and coordinate 1-3 with the General Services Commission for the purpose of exchanging 1-4 information about building construction projects. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 5, State Purchasing and General Services 1-7 Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-8 adding Section 5.155 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 5.155. COORDINATION AND EXCHANGE OF CONSTRUCTION 1-10 INFORMATION. (a) This section applies to all state agencies and 1-11 all building construction projects, including an agency or a 1-12 project otherwise exempted from the application of this article 1-13 under Section 5.13 of this article or other law. This section 1-14 applies to projects constructed by or for an agency. 1-15 (b) A state agency shall notify the commission when it is 1-16 considering whether to undertake a project and again when it 1-17 decides to undertake a project. The agency shall send to the 1-18 commission information about the project that the commission 1-19 requires. 1-20 (c) The commission shall coordinate and facilitate the 1-21 exchange of useful information between the commission or other 1-22 state agency undertaking a project and other agencies that have 1-23 been involved in a construction project either in the same 1-24 geographic area or that otherwise presented problems similar to 2-1 those that may be encountered on a proposed or ongoing project. 2-2 (d) The commission may prescribe forms, require information, 2-3 and adopt rules to administer this section. 2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.