27 CAR pt. 92, Appendix B. Act 541 of 2013

76 September 2015 APPENDIX B Act 541 - 2013 Regular Session - 89th Arkansas General Assembly State of Arkansas 89th General Assembly A Bill Regular Session, 2013 HOUSE BILL 1702 By: Representative Barnett For An Act To Be Entitled AN ACT TO REVISE AND EXTEND THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO ENTER INTO DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Subtitle TO REVISE AND EXTEND THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO ENTER INTO DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: SECTION 1. Arkansas Code § 27-67-206(j)(2) and (3), concerning authority for the State Highway Commission to enter into design-build contracts, is amended to read as follows: (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the commission may: (A) Establish written procedures and regulations for the procuring of qualifications-based, design-build services and for administering design-build project contracts; (B) Receive solicited and unsolicited proposals for design-build construction projects from a design-builder; (C) Award a design-build project contract on a qualification basis that offers the greatest value for the state; (D) Contract with a design-builder to acquire, design, construct, finance, improve, maintain, and operate and maintain an unlimited number of qualified design-build projects, including turnpike projects, when state highway revenues are not required to fund any portion of the projects' costs; and (E) Contract with design-builders to acquire, design, construct, finance, improve,   77 September 2015 maintain, and operate two (2) and maintain qualified design-build projects within ten (10) years of July 16, 2003, of July 1, 2013, pursuant to Amendment 91 to the Arkansas Constitution, should state highway revenues be required to fund any portion of the projects' cost costs. (3) However, the projects' costs for each of the two (2) individual contracts involving state highway revenues under subdivision (j)(2)(E) must be in excess of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) to qualify as design-build projects under this subsection. APPROVED: 03/28/2013