By: West  S.B. No. 297
         (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2007; January 30, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  April 24, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 24, 2007,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 297 By:  Lucio
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the composition of the committee appointed to review
  the uniform general conditions of state building construction
  contracts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 2166.305, Government
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A committee appointed by the commission shall perform
  the review. The committee consists of:
               (1)  the director of facilities construction and space
  management appointed under Section 2152.104, who serves as the
  presiding officer of the committee;
               (2)  six [seven] individuals appointed by the
  commission, one each from the lists of nominees submitted
  respectively by the:
                     (A)  president of the Texas Society of Architects;
                     (B)  president of the Texas Society of
  Professional Engineers;
                     (C)  presiding officer of the Executive Council of
  the Texas Associated General Contractors Chapters;
                     (D)  executive secretary of the Mechanical
  Contractors Associations of Texas, Incorporated;
                     (E)  executive secretary of the Texas Building and
  Construction Trades Council; and
                     (F)  president of the Associated Builders and
  Contractors of Texas[; and
                     [(G)     executive director of the National
  Association of Minority Contractors, with the list composed of
  persons who reside in this state];
               (3)  one individual appointed by the commission
  representing an institution of higher education, as defined by
  Section 61.003, Education Code;
               (4)  one individual appointed by the commission
  representing a state agency that has a substantial ongoing
  construction program;
               (5)  one individual appointed by the commission
  representing the attorney general's office; [and]
               (6)  one individual appointed by the commission
  representing the interests of historically underutilized
  businesses; and
               (7)  two individuals appointed by the commission, each
  representing a different minority contractors association.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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