By: Uresti  S.B. No. 2437
         (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2009; March 31, 2009, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
  Security; April 20, 2009, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 20, 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.  Subsection (a-1), Section 271.118, 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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