Bill Text: TX HB922 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the imposition of tolls on Fairmont Parkway in Harris County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Transportation [HB922 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB922-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Cain H.B. No. 922
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the imposition of tolls on Fairmont Parkway in Harris
  County.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 228.011(a), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This section applies only to a county acting under
  Chapter 284 for:
               (1)  the widening, expansion, reconstruction, and
  continued operation of existing toll projects of the county; or
               (2)  the development, construction, and operation of
  all or a portion of any of the following toll projects, a component
  of that project, or the functional equivalent of that project:
                     (A)  Beltway 8 Tollway East, between US 59 North
  and US 90 East;
                     (B)  Hardy Downtown Connector, consisting of the
  proposed direct connection from the Hardy Toll Road southern
  terminus at Loop 610 to downtown Houston;
                     (C)  State Highway 288, between US 59 and Grand
  Parkway South (State Highway 99);
                     (D)  US 290 Toll Lanes, between IH 610 West and the
  Grand Parkway Northwest (State Highway 99);
                     (E)  [Fairmont Parkway East, between Beltway 8
  East and Grand Parkway East (State Highway 99);
                     [(F)]  South Post Oak Road Extension, between IH
  610 South and near the intersection of Beltway 8 and Hillcroft in
  the vicinity of the Fort Bend Parkway Tollway;
                     (F) [(G)]  Westpark Toll Road Phase II, between
  Grand Parkway (State Highway 99) and FM 1463;
                     (G) [(H)]  Fort Bend Parkway, between State
  Highway 6 and the Brazos River; and
                     (H) [(I)]  Montgomery County Parkway, between
  State Highway 242 and the Grand Parkway (State Highway 99), and if
  the Grand Parkway project has not begun construction, a nontolled
  extension of the Montgomery County Parkway to allow a connection to
  Interstate Highway 45.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 372.059 to read as follows:
         Sec. 372.059.  FAIRMONT PARKWAY. A toll project entity may
  not impose a toll on any portion of Fairmont Parkway in Harris
  County.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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