Bill Text: TX SB2179 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 2179

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to liability of professional entities performing construction monitoring and inspection services for the Texas Department of Transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB2179 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2179-Introduced.html



	By: LaMantia	S.B. No. 2179


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to liability of professional entities performing
	construction monitoring and inspection services for the Texas
	Department of Transportation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 97, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
	amended by adding Section 97.003 to read as follows:
	Sec. 97.003. LIMIT ON LIABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION MONITORING
	AND INSPECTION SERVICES. A professional entity or an officer or
	employee of a professional entity that provides services as a
	consultant or subconsultant of the Texas Department of
	Transportation to monitor and inspect the progress of work on a
	transportation construction or maintenance project performed by a
	private contractor and report to the department regarding the
	contractor's compliance with the department's requirements for the
	project is not liable to a claimant for personal injury, property
	damage, or death arising from an action performed in the course and
	scope of the entity's consulting duties with respect to the
	project.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to
	a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
	this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.