89R14965 RDR-F
By: Alvarado S.B. No. 2812
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement for the Texas Department of
Transportation to disclose certain service contract information
and provide notice regarding certain changes to a contract.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 223.0042, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 223.0042. CONTRACT INFORMATION ON INTERNET WEBSITE.
(a) In this section, "engineering-related services" has the
meaning assigned by Section 223.041(a).
(b) The department shall make available on the department's
Internet website a listing describing each contract awarded by the
commission for a highway construction project. The listing must
include for each project:
(1) the funding program source contract awardee,
including subcontractors and historically underutilized business
and disadvantaged business enterprise participants and percentage
of contract; and
(2) each department transportation district in which
the contract will be performed.
(c) Not later than the 30th day after the date the
commission awards an engineering-related services contract, the
department shall make information related to the contract available
on the department's Internet website, including:
(1) the contract number;
(2) the primary firm involved in the contract;
(3) the total contract amount, in dollars;
(4) the date of the contract's execution;
(5) the termination date of the contract;
(6) the type of contract;
(7) whether the contract is a specific-deliverable or
indefinite-deliverable contract;
(8) a general description of the scope of services;
(9) work authorizations, supplemental work
authorizations, and supplemental agreements issued to date;
(10) the total amount paid, in dollars, under the
contract to date;
(11) a list of the geographic areas covered by the
contract; and
(12) any notifications or notices relating to the
contract issued under Section 223.041.
(d) The department shall update the department's Internet
website with the information required under Subsection (c) at least
weekly.
SECTION 2. Section 223.041, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
(c) If a work authorization has been issued by the
department for an engineering-related services contract, the
department shall notify the contractor in writing if the department
determines that the schedule or table of deliverables identified in
a contract or work authorization must be slowed, stopped, paused,
or otherwise altered for any reason. This notification must be
given to the contractor at least 90 days before the effective date
of any change to the contract's schedule or table of deliverables.
(d) If the department notifies a contractor for an
engineering-related services contract of an alteration to the
schedule or table of deliverables under Subsection (c), the
district, area-office, division, or other office within the
department that issued the notice shall report the notice in
writing to the executive director, the deputy executive director of
the department, and the chief engineer of the department not later
than three days after the date the notice was issued. Not later
than 10 days after the date the notice was issued, the department
shall post the notice on the department's Internet website in the
same location the contract information described by Section
223.0042(c) is posted for the corresponding engineering-related
services contract.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.