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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | November 14, 2023 06:04 PM |
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| From: | Senator Wayne Langerholc, Jr. |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Limiting the Liability of Commonwealth Contracts |
| In the near future, I will introduce legislation to protect consulting engineers from liability beyond their scope of work and to promote a free and competitive contracting environment. Pennsylvania is home to 105 consulting engineering firms and over 11,000 employees who are represented by the American Council of Engineering Companies-Pennsylvania. Consulting engineers provide a range of critical expertise to design every construction and renovation project in this Commonwealth and across the nation. A current policy by the Commonwealth holds our professional engineers accountable for third-party claims beyond the work they performed in a public contract. In its current form, the policy is a high-risk contract provision for design professionals as it creates unmanageable risk not covered by their professional liability insurance policy. As a result, this will inflate the taxpayer’s cost of contracts entered into by any Commonwealth agency. My legislation will amend the Procurement Code to affirm engineering consultants will only be accountable for their negligent acts, errors and omissions proportional to the public service they perform. Please join me in co-sponsoring legislation that will protect and promote our engineering professionals who conduct business in this Commonwealth for the public good. |