Free Blank Texas Construction Subcontractor Agreement (2026)
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Texas rules that this document follows
| Prompt payment to subcontractors | The contractor must pay the subcontractor within 7 days after the date the contractor receives the owner's payment. Late payment carries 1.5% per month.Source: Tex. Prop. Code §§ 28.002, 28.004 |
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| Retainage cap on private work | No statutory cap was confirmed — retainage is whatever the subcontract says, and should never exceed what the owner holds from the general contractor |
| Pay-if-paid clauses | A contingent-payment clause is enforceable, but the statute gives the subcontractor defences — including the contractor's own default, the owner's failure to pay for reasons the subcontractor did not cause, and unconscionability — and the clause cannot defeat lien or bond rights.Source: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 56 |
| Anti-indemnity statute | An indemnity clause in a construction contract is void to the extent it makes the subcontractor answer for the indemnitee's sole negligence; indemnity for shared fault is still allowed.Source: Tex. Ins. Code ch. 151 |
| Subcontractor lien rights | An unpaid subcontractor may record a mechanics lien against the project; the chapter below sets the preliminary-notice and filing deadlines, which run from the subcontractor's last work, not from the general contractor's.Source: Tex. Prop. Code ch. 53 (mechanic's, contractor's or materialman's lien) |
| Uninsured subcontractor — workers' compensation | A general contractor and a subcontractor may agree in writing that the general contractor will provide workers' compensation coverage; the general contractor is then the employer of the subcontractor and its employees for compensation purposes.Source: Tex. Lab. Code § 406.123 |
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