By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1677

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                                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.