{"id":485,"date":"2016-04-26T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/26\/attorney-general-opinion-design-build-txdot-options-appropriations-rider-fail\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:15:00","slug":"attorney-general-opinion-design-build-txdot-options-appropriations-rider-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/attorney-general-opinion-design-build-txdot-options-appropriations-rider-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Opinion: Design-Build. TXDOT Options. Appropriations Rider Fail."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2016\/kp0077.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Attorney General Opinion KP-0077<\/a>, the question being answered is:<\/strong>\u00a0Does TXDOT have authority to neter into design-build contracts for 2016-2017?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the question arise?<\/strong>\u00a0A conflict between the appropriations bill &amp; Section\u00a0223.242,\u00a0Transportation Code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Attorney General&#8217;s conclusion:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, TXDOT can enter into design build contracts, with limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What limits does the Attorney General note on TXDOT&#8217;s design-build authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design Build only OK for contracts over\u00a0$150 Million<\/li>\n<li>Limit of 3 design build contracts in a fiscal year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does the Attorney General resolve the conflict on the number of design build contracts between the Appropriations Bill &amp; Section 223.242, Transportation Code?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The # of contracts.\u00a0<\/strong>The Appropriations Bill language included specific language that allowed general law to prevail. It did.\u00a0HB 1 called for 10. Statutes call for 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The threshold amount to trigger design-build.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0HB 1 said $250 Million. Statutes call for $150 Million. The AG Opinion says the rider only applies to contracts over $250 Million &amp; the rider has no impact on contracts between $150-$250 Million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2016\/kp0077.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Attorney General Opinion KP-0077<\/a>, the question being answered is:<\/strong>\u00a0Does TXDOT have authority to neter into design-build contracts for 2016-2017?<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the question arise?<\/strong>\u00a0A conflict between the appropriations bill &amp; Section\u00a0223.242,\u00a0Transportation Code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Attorney General&#8217;s conclusion:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, TXDOT can enter into design build contracts, with limits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What limits does the Attorney General note on TXDOT&#8217;s design-build authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design Build only OK for contracts over\u00a0$150&#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":[14,22,8,10,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-attorney-general","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}