Bill Text: TX HB1643 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional mobility authority comprehensive development agreements for projects in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Referred to Transportation [HB1643 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1643-Introduced.html

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86R4542 JTS-D
By: Martinez H.B. No. 1643

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional
mobility authority comprehensive development agreements for
projects in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 223.201(b), Transportation Code, is
transferred to Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
redesignated as Section 223.2001, Transportation Code, and amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2001. DEFINITION. [(b)] In this subchapter,
"comprehensive development agreement" means an agreement that, at a
minimum, provides for the design and construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, expansion, or improvement of a project described in
Section 223.201(a) [Subsection (a)] and may also provide for the
financing, acquisition, maintenance, or operation of a project
described in that section [Subsection (a)].
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 223.2002 to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2002. LIMITATION. The department may enter into a
comprehensive development agreement only:
(1) for specific projects authorized under this
subchapter; or
(2) as provided by Subchapter F.
SECTION 3. Sections 223.201(f) and (g), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(f) The department may enter into a comprehensive
development agreement [only] for all or part of[:
[(1)] the State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) project[;
[(2) the Interstate Highway 35E managed lanes project
in Dallas and Denton Counties from Interstate Highway 635 to U.S.
Highway 380;
[(3) the Interstate Highway 35W project in Tarrant
County from Interstate Highway 30 to State Highway 114;
[(4) the State Highway 183 managed lanes project in
Tarrant and Dallas Counties from State Highway 121 to Interstate
Highway 35E;
[(5) the Interstate Highway 35E/U.S. Highway 67
Southern Gateway project in Dallas County, including:
[(A) Interstate Highway 35E from 8th Street to
Interstate Highway 20; and
[(B) U.S. Highway 67 from Interstate Highway 35E
to Farm-to-Market Road 1382 (Belt Line Road);
[(6) the State Highway 288 project from U.S. Highway
59 to south of State Highway 6 in Brazoria County and Harris County;
[(7) the U.S. Highway 290 managed lanes project in
Harris County from Interstate Highway 610 to State Highway 99;
[(8) the Interstate Highway 820 project from State
Highway 183 to Randol Mill Road;
[(9) the State Highway 114 project in Dallas County
from State Highway 121 to State Highway 183;
[(10) the Loop 12 project in Dallas County from State
Highway 183 to Interstate Highway 35E;
[(11) the Loop 9 project in Dallas and Ellis Counties
from Interstate Highway 20 to U.S. Highway 67; and
[(12) the U.S. Highway 181 Harbor Bridge project in
Nueces County between U.S. Highway 181 at Beach Avenue and
Interstate Highway 37].
(g) The department may combine in a comprehensive
development agreement under this subchapter:
(1) a toll project and a rail facility as defined by
Section 91.001; or
(2) two or more projects for which the department is
authorized under this subchapter to enter into a comprehensive
development agreement [described by Subsection (f)].
SECTION 4. Section 223.2012(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section, the North Tarrant Express project is
the project on Interstate Highway 35W in Tarrant County from
Interstate Highway 30 to State Highway 114 that was [described by
Section 223.201(f)(3)] entered into on June 23, 2009.
SECTION 5. Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 223.2014 to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2014. AUTHORIZED PROJECTS. (a) The department
may enter into a comprehensive development agreement for a project
listed under Section 370.3051.
(b) This section expires August 31, 2029.
SECTION 6. Section 370.305(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An authority may enter into a comprehensive development
agreement only:
(1) for specific projects authorized under this
subchapter; or
(2) as provided by Subchapter K [Except as provided by
this chapter, an authority's authority to enter into a
comprehensive development agreement expires on August 31, 2011].
SECTION 7. Subchapter G, Chapter 370, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 370.3051 to read as follows:
Sec. 370.3051. AUTHORIZED PROJECTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS. (a) A regional mobility authority may
enter into a comprehensive development agreement for:
(1) the Outer Parkway project in Cameron County from
U.S. Highway 77 to Farm-to-Market Road 1847;
(2) the South Padre Island Second Access Causeway
project in Cameron County from State Highway 100 to Park Road 100;
(3) the Farm-to-Market 1925 project from U.S. Highway
281 in Hidalgo County to U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County;
(4) the Hidalgo County Loop project;
(5) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project in
Hidalgo County;
(6) the U.S. Highway 83 La Joya Relief Route project in
Hidalgo County; and
(7) the State Highway 68 project in Hidalgo County.
(b) This section expires August 31, 2029.
SECTION 8. The following provisions of the Transportation
Code are repealed:
(1) Sections 223.201(i), (j), (k), (l), and (m); and
(2) Section 223.2011.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.