Bill Text: TX HB4797 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to training on the treatment of toll project roadways during inclement weather.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4797 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4797-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4797 |
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relating to training on the treatment of toll project roadways | ||
during inclement weather. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 372.059 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 372.059. TREATMENT OF TOLL ROADWAY DURING INCLEMENT | ||
WEATHER. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f), a toll | ||
project entity that treats a roadway maintained by the entity | ||
during icy or snowy weather shall require each employee or | ||
contractor who develops and supervises a plan for roadway treatment | ||
to complete a training course on treating roadways during icy or | ||
snowy weather in the same manner as a department employee who treats | ||
roadways during icy or snowy weather. | ||
(b) The department, in coordination with public toll | ||
project entities: | ||
(1) shall make training courses that the department | ||
provides to department employees who develop and supervise plans | ||
for roadway treatment available to a person required to receive | ||
training under Subsection (a); and | ||
(2) may adopt rules as necessary to implement this | ||
section. | ||
(c) The department, in coordination with toll project | ||
entities, shall identify the types of employees and contractors who | ||
are subject to the training requirements under Subsection (a). | ||
(d) A training course described by Subsection (b) must | ||
include instruction regarding: | ||
(1) prioritizing treatment of elevated structures and | ||
other roadway elements that pose the highest risk to public health | ||
and safety during icy or snowy weather; | ||
(2) timing of treatment of roadways during icy or | ||
snowy weather; and | ||
(3) treatment of general purpose lanes adjacent to a | ||
toll project. | ||
(e) The department may authorize a toll project entity to | ||
require that an employee or contractor required to receive training | ||
under Subsection (a) complete a training course provided by another | ||
entity that includes substantially the same information as a course | ||
provided by the department. | ||
(f) For a roadway that is subject to a comprehensive | ||
development agreement entered into by the department or a public | ||
toll project entity under which a private participant is | ||
responsible for maintaining the roadway, the private participant is | ||
responsible for requiring each employee or contractor of the | ||
private participant who develops and supervises a plan for roadway | ||
treatment to complete the training required by Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4797 was passed by the House on April | ||
21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 4797 on May 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4797 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |