75R12064 T By Hamric H.B. No. 3376 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3376: By Turner of Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 3376 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a municipality to require a building 1-3 permit for construction and renovation work on county-owned 1-4 buildings and facilities by certain counties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 212, Subchapter Z, Local Government Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 212.903 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 212.903. CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION WORK ON 1-9 COUNTY-OWNED BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) 1-10 This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8 1-11 million or more. 1-12 (b) A municipality is not authorized to require a county to 1-13 notify a municipality or obtain a building permit for any new 1-14 construction or renovation work performed within the limits of the 1-15 municipality by that county's personnel or by county personnel 1-16 acting as general contractor on county-owned buildings or 1-17 facilities. Such construction or renovation work shall be 1-18 inspected by a registered professional engineer or architect 1-19 licensed in this state in accordance with any other applicable law. 1-20 A municipality may require a building permit for construction or 1-21 renovation work performed on county-owned buildings or facilities 1-22 by private general contractors. 1-23 (c) This section does not exempt a county from complying 1-24 with a municipality's building code standards when performing 2-1 construction or renovation work. 2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.