Bill Text: TX SB1143 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on converting high occupancy vehicle highway lanes to tolled lanes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Referred to Transportation [SB1143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1143-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on converting high occupancy vehicle highway lanes to tolled lanes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Referred to Transportation [SB1143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1143-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hall | S.B. No. 1143 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2017; March 7, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, | ||
Nays 1; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a prohibition on converting high occupancy vehicle | ||
highway lanes to tolled lanes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 228.201, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 228.201. LIMITATION ON TOLL FACILITY DESIGNATION. | ||
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a segment of a nontolled state highway as a toll project, and may | ||
not transfer a highway or segment to another entity for operation as | ||
a toll project, unless: | ||
(1) the commission by order designated the highway or | ||
segment as a toll project before the contract to construct the | ||
highway or segment was awarded; | ||
(2) the project was designated as a toll project in a | ||
plan or program of a metropolitan planning organization on or | ||
before September 1, 2005; | ||
(3) the highway or segment is reconstructed so that | ||
the number of nontolled lanes on the highway or segment is greater | ||
than or equal to the number in existence before the reconstruction; | ||
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(4) a facility is constructed adjacent to the highway | ||
or segment so that the number of nontolled lanes on the converted | ||
highway or segment and the adjacent facility together is greater | ||
than or equal to the number in existence on the converted highway or | ||
segment before the conversion[ |
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SECTION 2. 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. | ||
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