Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 38H of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as amended by section 1 of chapter 228 of the acts of 1985, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-

(j) Contracts for design services shall include a provision that the designer or his consultants shall not be compensated for any services involved in preparing changes that are required for additional work that should have been anticipated by the designer in the preparation of the bid documents, as reasonably determined by the executive head of the public agency responsible for administering the design contract. For the purpose of this paragraph, "public agency" shall have the meaning as set forth in section thirty-nine A.