By: Nichols S.B. No. 35

(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2025; February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; March 13, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to design-build contracts.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 223.242(d-1), Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d-1) The department may not enter into more than two [six] contracts under this section in each state fiscal biennium.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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