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          AN ACT
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        relating to the construction manager-at-risk used by a governmental  | 
      
      
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        entity. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 2269.252, Government Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as  | 
      
      
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        follows: | 
      
      
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               (b)  The governmental entity's architect or engineer for a  | 
      
      
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        project, or an entity related to the governmental entity's  | 
      
      
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        architect or engineer, may not serve, alone or in combination with  | 
      
      
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        another person, as the construction manager-at-risk [unless the 
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          architect or engineer is hired to serve as the construction 
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          manager-at-risk under a separate or concurrent selection process 
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          conducted in accordance with this subchapter].  This subsection  | 
      
      
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        does not prohibit the governmental entity's architect or engineer  | 
      
      
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        from providing customary construction phase services under the  | 
      
      
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        architect's or engineer's original professional service agreement  | 
      
      
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        in accordance with applicable licensing laws. | 
      
      
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               (c)  For purposes of Subsection (b), an entity is related to  | 
      
      
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        the governmental entity's architect or engineer if the entity is a  | 
      
      
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        sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, limited liability  | 
      
      
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        company, or other entity that is a subsidiary, parent corporation,  | 
      
      
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        or partner or has any other relationship in which the governmental  | 
      
      
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        entity's architect or engineer has an ownership interest, or is  | 
      
      
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        subject to common ownership or control, or is party to an agreement  | 
      
      
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        by which it will receive any proceeds of the construction  | 
      
      
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        manager-at-risk's payments from the governmental entity. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a contract for the  | 
      
      
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        services of a construction manager-at-risk entered into on or after  | 
      
      
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        the effective date of this Act.  A contract entered into for the  | 
      
      
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        services of a construction manager-at-risk before the effective  | 
      
      
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        date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the contract  | 
      
      
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        was entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that  | 
      
      
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        purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2634 was passed by the House on May 5,  | 
      
      
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        2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2634 was passed by the Senate on May  | 
      
      
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        26, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 3. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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                         Governor        |