Bill Text: TX HB1589 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain comprehensive development agreements of the Texas Department of Transportation or a regional mobility authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB1589 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1589-Introduced.html
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By: Oliveira | H.B. No. 1589 |
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relating to certain comprehensive development agreements of the | ||
Texas Department of Transportation or a regional mobility | ||
authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 223.201(j), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(j) Before the department may enter into a comprehensive | ||
development agreement under Subsection (f), the department must: | ||
(1) for a project other than the State Highway 99 | ||
(Grand Parkway) project, obtain, not later than August 31, 2023 | ||
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(A) for the project; or | ||
(B) for the initial or base scope of the project | ||
if the project agreement provides for the phased construction of | ||
the project; and | ||
(2) present to the commission a full financial plan | ||
for the project, including costing methodology and cost proposals. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 223.2011(a), (c), and (f), | ||
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 223.201(f) and 370.305(c), the | ||
department or an authority under Section 370.003 may enter into a | ||
comprehensive development agreement relating to improvements to, | ||
or construction of, all or part of: | ||
(1) the Loop 1 (MoPac Improvement) project from | ||
Farm-to-Market Road 734 to Cesar Chavez Street; | ||
(2) the U.S. 183 (Bergstrom Expressway) project from | ||
Springdale Road to Patton Avenue; | ||
(3) a project consisting of the construction of: | ||
(A) the Outer Parkway Project in Cameron County | ||
from U.S. Highway 77 to Farm-to-Market Road 1847; and | ||
(B) the South Padre Island Second Access Causeway | ||
Project from State Highway 100 to Park Road 100; | ||
(4) the Loop 49 project from Interstate 20 to U.S. | ||
Highway 69 (Lindale Relief Route) and from State Highway 110 to U.S. | ||
Highway 259 (Segments 6 and 7); | ||
(5) the Loop 375 Border Highway West project in El Paso | ||
County from Race Track Drive to U.S. Highway 54; | ||
(6) the Northeast Parkway project in El Paso County | ||
from Loop 375 east of the Railroad Drive overpass to the Texas-New | ||
Mexico border; | ||
(7) the Loop 1604 project in Bexar County; | ||
(8) the Hidalgo County Loop project; [ |
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(9) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project; | ||
and | ||
(10) the Farm-to-Market 1925 project from U.S. Highway | ||
281 in Hidalgo County to U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County. | ||
(c) Not later than December 1, 2018 [ |
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or the authority, as applicable, shall provide a report to the | ||
commission on the status of a project described by Subsection | ||
(a). The report must include: | ||
(1) the status of the project's environmental | ||
clearance; | ||
(2) an explanation of any project delays; and | ||
(3) if the procurement is not completed, the | ||
anticipated date for the completion of the procurement. | ||
(f) The authority to enter into a comprehensive development | ||
agreement under this section expires August 31, 2023 [ |
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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 August 28, 2017. |