By: Castro (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 3057
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2009;
  May 4, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Transportation and Homeland Security; May 18, 2009, reported
  favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 2009, sent
  to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the use by a metropolitan rapid transit authority of the
  construction manager-at-risk method for the construction,
  rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a facility.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 271.118(a-1), Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a-1)  In this section:
               (1)  "Facility" ["facility"] means an improvement to
  real property.
               (2)  "Governmental entity" includes a metropolitan
  rapid transit authority under Chapter 451, Transportation Code.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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