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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 28 — Architect of the Capitol

§ 1816a. Design-build contracts

Statutory text

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Architect of the Capitol may use the two-phase selection procedures authorized in section 3309 of title 41 for entering into a contract for the design and construction of a public building, facility, or work in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as the head of an executive agency under such section.

(b)

This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2008 and each succeeding fiscal year.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008

    Pub. L. 110–161 div. H title I § 1308 · 121 Stat. 1844

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 1816a

    (Pub. L. 110–161, div. H, title I, § 1308, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2244.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 110–161, div. H, title I, § 1308, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2244.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 1308. Design-Build Contracts.— (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Architect of the Capitol may use the two-phase selection procedures authorized in section 303M of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253m) for entering into a contract for the design and construction of a public building, facility, or work in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as the head of an executive agency under such section. (b) Applicability. This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2008 and each succeeding fiscal year.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

In subsec. (a), “section 3309 of title 41” substituted for “section 303M of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253m)” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), , 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008, which is div. H of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008.

Credits

(Pub. L. 110–161, div. H, title I, § 1308, , 121 Stat. 2244.)

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