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.