{"id":337,"date":"2015-11-02T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/11\/02\/ag-opinion-request-chair-of-transportation-committee-asks-about-design-build-3-points-to-know-now\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:18:00","slug":"ag-opinion-request-chair-of-transportation-committee-asks-about-design-build-3-points-to-know-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ag-opinion-request-chair-of-transportation-committee-asks-about-design-build-3-points-to-know-now\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Opinion Request: Chair of Transportation Committee Asks About Design Build. 3 Points to Know Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The question before Attorney General Paxton:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Can TXDOT enter into Design Build contracts in fiscal year 2016-2017 with funds appropriated for that year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is this a question?\u00a0<\/strong>Design Build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbb.state.tx.us\/Documents\/Budget\/Session_Code_84\/HB1-Conference_Committee_Report_84.pdf\">Rider 47 to HB 1<\/a> and the Transportation Code Conflict.\n<ul>\n<li>Rider 47 has a higher threshold, $250 million, than statute, which has a $150 million threshold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opposition thinks Rider 47 is unconstitutional.<\/strong>\u00a0Can&#8217;t go changing substantive law in the budget, but you can as long as no court or parliamentarian\u00a0stops you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2015\/pdf\/RQ0063KP.pdf\">RQ-00063- KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The question before Attorney General Paxton:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Can TXDOT enter into Design Build contracts in fiscal year 2016-2017 with funds appropriated for that year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is this a question?\u00a0<\/strong>Design Build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbb.state.tx.us\/Documents\/Budget\/Session_Code_84\/HB1-Conference_Committee_Report_84.pdf\">Rider 47 to HB 1<\/a> and the Transportation Code Conflict.\n<ul>\n<li>Rider 47 has a higher threshold, $250 million, than statute, which has a $150 million threshold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opposition thinks Rider 47 is unconstitutional.<\/strong>\u00a0Can&#8217;t go changing substantive law in the budget, but you can as long as no court or&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,8,20,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-attorney-general","category-funding","category-lbb","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}