Bill Text: TX HB1968 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to certain comprehensive development agreements of the Texas Department of Transportation or a regional mobility authority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1968 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1968-Comm_Sub.html

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84R24738 JAM-D
By: Martinez H.B. No. 1968
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1968:
By: Pickett C.S.H.B. No. 1968

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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, 2019
[2017], the appropriate environmental clearance:
(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 one
or more [a] comprehensive development agreements [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 or projects 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; and
(C) the Farm-to-Market Road 106 project in
Cameron County from Farm-to-Market Road 1847 to Farm-to-Market Road
510;
(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; [and]
(9) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project;
and
(10) the Farm-to-Market Road 1925 project in Cameron
and Hidalgo Counties from Interstate 69E to Interstate 69C.
(c) Not later than December 1, 2016 [2014], the department
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, 2019 [2017].
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, 2015.