Bill Text: TX HB3160 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional mobility authority comprehensive development agreements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB3160 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3160-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 3160 |
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relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional | ||
mobility authority comprehensive development agreements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 223.201(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
redesignated as Section 223.2001, Transportation Code, and amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 223.2001. DEFINITION. [ |
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"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) [ |
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financing, acquisition, maintenance, or operation of a project | ||
described in Section 223.201(a) [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 223.201(f), (g), (i), and (j), | ||
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) In addition to the projects described by Subsection (a), | ||
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(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 [ |
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(i) The department's authority to enter into a | ||
comprehensive development agreement under this subchapter | ||
expires[ |
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(j) Before the department may enter into a comprehensive | ||
development agreement under this subchapter [ |
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department must: | ||
(1) for a project other than the State Highway 99 | ||
(Grand Parkway) project, obtain[ |
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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 3. Section 370.305(c), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) Except as provided by this chapter, an authority's | ||
authority to enter into a comprehensive development agreement | ||
expires on August 31, 2031 [ |
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SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Transportation | ||
Code are repealed: | ||
(1) Sections 223.201(k) and (m); and | ||
(2) Section 223.2011. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act do not | ||
invalidate a comprehensive development agreement or facility | ||
agreement entered into under Subchapter E, Chapter 223, | ||
Transportation Code, before the effective date of this Act, and do | ||
not limit the continued authority relating to those agreements. The | ||
prior law is continued in effect for the limited purpose of | ||
continuing to govern those agreements as applicable. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |