Free Texas List of Subcontractors and Suppliers Form

What belongs on a texas list of subcontractors and suppliers

• Name, address and telephone number columns, which are the three things Property Code 53.256(a) names
• The 53.256(b) notice printed in bold at 10 point, which is the size and face the statute asks for
• The date the list was furnished, because the duty is to furnish it before construction commences
• Delivered by, how and when lines, because the duty is to furnish the list and you may have to show you did
• A replaces the list dated line, so an updated list inside the 15 day window is visibly an update
• A trade or supply column, which the statute does not require and the owner will want
• An optional owner receipt line, labeled so it can never be mistaken for the 53.256(d) waiver
• Twenty eight entries across two sheets on the blank PDF, ready to print and fill by hand

Who owes this list, and when

The duty falls on the original contractor, the one in contract with the owner, on a residential construction contract for the construction of improvements. It is not a duty of subcontractors, and it is not triggered on commercial work.

The timing is the part people get wrong. The list goes to the owner before the commencement of construction. A list produced after the work starts is late, and a list produced when the owner asks for one at the end of the job is not what the statute describes.

The 15 day rule is the part that keeps running

Furnishing the first list is not the end of it. Property Code 53.256(a)(2) says an updated list goes to the owner not later than the 15th day after the date a subcontractor or supplier is added or deleted. Every change starts its own clock.

That is why this sheet has a list version and a replaces the list dated line. What the statute asks for on a change is a fresh list, not a note about what moved, so an update is this same sheet filled in again with the version and the date it replaces filled in. The delivered by and date of delivery lines are there because furnishing it is the duty, and a duty you cannot show you performed is one you may as well not have.

The notice on the sheet is not ours and cannot be reworded

Property Code 53.256(b) writes one paragraph and says the list must contain it, conspicuously printed, stamped, or typed in a size equal to at least 10-point boldface or the computer equivalent. It is on this sheet in bold at 10 point because that is what the subsection asks for.

The wording here was cut straight out of the statute text and checked against a second publisher word for word. Nobody retyped it, which matters, because a notice that has been tidied up in passing is no longer the notice the statute names.

Tex. Prop. Code 53.256(b)

NOTICE: THIS LIST OF SUBCONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS MAY NOT BE A FINAL LISTING. UNLESS YOU SIGN A WAIVER OF YOUR RIGHT TO RECEIVE UPDATED INFORMATION, THE CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO SUPPLY UPDATED INFORMATION, AS THE INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE, FOR EACH SUBCONTRACTOR OR SUPPLIER USED IN THE WORK PERFORMED ON YOUR RESIDENCE.

That is the whole of it. The list carries this paragraph and nothing is added to it or taken out.

Signing for the list is not waiving the list

An owner is allowed to give up the right to receive this list, but only the way 53.256(d) describes: in writing, either as a provision of the residential construction contract or as a separate statement the owner signs. That separate statement has its own prescribed wording and its own page on this site.

The signature line at the bottom of this sheet is not that. It is labeled acknowledging receipt of this list only, in those words, so that nothing an owner signs here can later be read as a waiver. If you want the waiver, use the waiver form and let the owner read it as a document of its own.

Missing the list does not cost you the lien, and it is still worth doing

Be accurate about the stakes. Property Code 53.256(c) says the failure of a contractor to comply with this section does not invalidate a lien under the chapter, a contract lien, or a deed of trust. Skipping the list does not delete your lien rights.

What it does is hand the other side a statutory duty you did not perform, on a residential job, in front of a homeowner. It also throws away the one document that records who you put on the property and when, which is the first thing you want when a warranty claim arrives two years later and nobody remembers which framer it was.

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