Bill Text: TX SB1127 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to nontolled lanes on a highway that has been converted from a nontolled highway to a toll project.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-07 - Referred to Transportation [SB1127 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1127-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 1127 | |
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| relating to nontolled lanes on a highway that has been converted | ||
| from a nontolled highway to a toll project. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 228.201, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In determining the number of nontolled lanes required to | ||
| comply with Subsection (a)(3), the department may consider only a | ||
| general-purpose lane that is part of the highway and may not include | ||
| a lane of a frontage road. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 228.201(c), Transportation Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a highway reconstruction in | ||
| accordance with Section 228.201(a)(3), Transportation Code, that | ||
| is begun on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| reconstruction begun before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect when the reconstruction began, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
