Bill Text: TX HB2557 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the development of certain local government transportation infrastructure projects; authorizing the issuance of bonds.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB2557 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2557-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2557 |
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relating to the development of certain local government | ||
transportation infrastructure projects; authorizing the issuance | ||
of bonds. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 172.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivision (4-a) and amending Subdivision (7) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(4-a) "Intelligent transportation system" means: | ||
(A) innovative or intelligent technological | ||
transportation systems, infrastructure, or facilities, including | ||
elevated freight transportation facilities: | ||
(i) in proximity to, or within, an existing | ||
right-of-way on the state highway system; or | ||
(ii) that connect land ports of entry to the | ||
state highway system; | ||
(B) communications or information processing | ||
systems that improve the efficiency, security, or safety of freight | ||
movement on the state highway system, including improving the | ||
conveyance of freight on dedicated intelligent freight lanes; or | ||
(C) a transportation facility or system that | ||
increases truck freight efficiencies in the boundaries of an | ||
intermodal facility or hub. | ||
(7) "Rail facilities" means: | ||
(A) passenger or freight rail facilities, | ||
including: | ||
(i) tracks; | ||
(ii) a rail line; | ||
(iii) switching, signaling, or other | ||
operating equipment; | ||
(iv) a depot; | ||
(v) a locomotive; | ||
(vi) rolling stock; | ||
(vii) a maintenance facility; and | ||
(viii) other real and personal property | ||
associated with a rail operation; | ||
(B) an intermodal hub; | ||
(C) an automated conveyor belt for the movement | ||
of freight; | ||
(D) an intelligent transportation system that | ||
operates with or as part of facilities described by Paragraphs | ||
(A)-(C); or | ||
(E) a system of facilities described by | ||
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SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 172, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 172.211 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 172.211. OTHER POWERS OF COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND | ||
NAVIGATION DISTRICT. (a) This section applies only to a county | ||
that: | ||
(1) is adjacent to a county with a population of four | ||
million or more; | ||
(2) has a population of 300,000 or more; and | ||
(3) has created a district by concurrent order with an | ||
adjacent county pursuant to Section 172.052. | ||
(b) A county acting through the commissioners court or a | ||
local government corporation may adopt an order that authorizes the | ||
county and a navigation district located wholly or partly in the | ||
county to: | ||
(1) develop rail facilities as a qualifying project | ||
under Chapter 2267, Government Code; and | ||
(2) issue bonds for rail facilities secured by a | ||
pledge of the revenues of the facilities, including contract | ||
revenue, grant revenue, or other revenue collected in connection | ||
with the facilities. | ||
(c) If each county that created a district adopts an order | ||
described by Subsection (b), the district may exercise the powers | ||
described by that subsection. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2557 was passed by the House on May | ||
12, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 12, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2557 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
_____________________ | ||
Governor |