By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1677 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to contract management projects for school districts. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 44, Education Code, Section 1-4 44.031, is amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: 1-5 (m) If the board of trustees of a school district elects to 1-6 enter a construction management agreement for the purpose of 1-7 constructing facilities, that agreement shall reflect an agency 1-8 relationship between the construction manager and the school 1-9 district. 1-10 SECTION 2. The legislation takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.