Bill Text: TX SB2496 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the prohibition of tolls on portions of State Highway 146 and State Highway 99.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Transportation [SB2496 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2496-Introduced.html
  88R3766 CXP-F
 
  By: Middleton S.B. No. 2496
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the prohibition of tolls on portions of State Highway
  146 and State Highway 99.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter E, Chapter 228,
  Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER E. LIMITATION ON TOLL FACILITY DESIGNATION, TOLL
  COLLECTION, AND [;] CONVERSION OF NONTOLLED STATE HIGHWAY
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 228, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 228.202 to read as follows:
         Sec. 228.202.  TOLLS PROHIBITED ON PORTIONS OF STATE HIGHWAY
  146 AND STATE HIGHWAY 99. The department may not charge a toll,
  either directly or indirectly through an agreement with another
  entity, on:
               (1)  the portion of State Highway 146 that crosses the
  Houston Ship Channel; or
               (2)  the portion of State Highway 99 between its
  intersection with State Highway 146 and its intersection with
  Interstate Highway 10.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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