Bill Text: TX HB3825 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the application for federal highway and rail funds by a regional mobility authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Transportation [HB3825 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3825-Introduced.html
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By: Simmons | H.B. No. 3825 |
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relating to the application for federal highway and rail funds by a | ||
regional mobility authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 370.033(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) An authority, through its board, may: | ||
(1) adopt rules for the regulation of its affairs and | ||
the conduct of its business; | ||
(2) adopt an official seal; | ||
(3) study, evaluate, design, finance, acquire, | ||
construct, maintain, repair, and operate transportation projects, | ||
individually or as one or more systems, provided that a | ||
transportation project that is subject to Subpart C, 23 C.F.R. Part | ||
450, is: | ||
(A) included in the plan approved by the | ||
applicable metropolitan planning organization; and | ||
(B) consistent with the statewide transportation | ||
plan and the statewide transportation improvement program; | ||
(4) acquire, hold, and dispose of property in the | ||
exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under this | ||
chapter; | ||
(5) enter into contracts or operating agreements with | ||
a similar authority, another governmental entity, or an agency of | ||
the United States, a state of the United States, the United Mexican | ||
States, or a state of the United Mexican States; | ||
(6) enter into contracts or agreements necessary or | ||
incidental to its powers and duties under this chapter; | ||
(7) cooperate and work directly with property owners | ||
and governmental entities and officials to support an activity | ||
required to promote or develop a transportation project; | ||
(8) employ and set the compensation and benefits of | ||
administrators, consulting engineers, attorneys, accountants, | ||
construction and financial experts, superintendents, managers, | ||
full-time and part-time employees, agents, consultants, and other | ||
persons as the authority considers necessary or useful; | ||
(8-a) participate in the state travel management | ||
program administered by the comptroller for the purpose of | ||
obtaining reduced airline fares and reduced travel agent fees, | ||
provided that the comptroller may charge the authority a fee not to | ||
exceed the costs incurred by the comptroller in providing services | ||
to the authority; | ||
(9) notwithstanding Sections 221.003 and 222.031 and | ||
subject to Subsection [ |
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directly or indirectly receive and spend loans, gifts, grants, and | ||
other contributions for any purpose of this chapter, including the | ||
construction of a transportation project, and receive and spend | ||
contributions of money, property, labor, or other things of value | ||
from any source, including the United States, a state of the United | ||
States, the United Mexican States, a state of the United Mexican | ||
States, the commission, the department, a subdivision of this | ||
state, or a governmental entity or private entity, to be used for | ||
the purposes for which the grants, loans, or contributions are | ||
made, and enter into any agreement necessary for the grants, loans, | ||
or contributions; | ||
(10) install, construct, or contract for the | ||
construction of public utility facilities, direct the time and | ||
manner of construction of a public utility facility in, on, along, | ||
over, or under a transportation project, or request the removal or | ||
relocation of a public utility facility in, on, along, over, or | ||
under a transportation project; | ||
(11) organize a corporation under Chapter 431 for the | ||
promotion and development of transportation projects; | ||
(12) adopt and enforce rules not inconsistent with | ||
this chapter for the use of any transportation project, including | ||
tolls, fares, or other user fees, speed and weight limits, and | ||
traffic and other public safety rules, provided that an authority | ||
must consider the same factors that the Texas Turnpike Authority | ||
division of the department must consider in altering a prima facie | ||
speed limit under Section 545.354; | ||
(13) enter into leases, operating agreements, service | ||
agreements, licenses, franchises, and similar agreements with a | ||
public or private party governing the party's use of all or any | ||
portion of a transportation project and the rights and obligations | ||
of the authority with respect to a transportation project; | ||
(14) borrow money from or enter into a loan agreement | ||
or other arrangement with the state infrastructure bank, the | ||
department, the commission, or any other public or private entity; | ||
and | ||
(15) do all things necessary or appropriate to carry | ||
out the powers and duties expressly granted or imposed by this | ||
chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 370.033(j), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
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. |