Bill Text: TX SB1601 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to railroads in this state.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-11 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1601 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1601-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1601 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 23, 2015, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
| April 13, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 4; April 13, 2015, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1601 | By: Kolkhorst | |
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| relating to railroads in this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 81.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subdivision (3) to read as follows: | ||
| (3) "High-speed rail" means intercity passenger rail | ||
| service that is reasonably expected to reach speeds of at least 110 | ||
| miles per hour. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 81.002, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.002. APPLICABILITY. In this title, a reference to a | ||
| railroad company means [ |
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| (1) a railroad initially incorporated before | ||
| September 1, 2007, under former Title 112, Revised Statutes; or | ||
| (2) any other legal entity operating a railroad, | ||
| including an entity organized under the Texas Business Corporation | ||
| Act or the Texas Corporation Law provisions of the Business | ||
| Organizations Code, that owns or leases: | ||
| (A) locomotives and passenger or freight rail | ||
| cars; and | ||
| (B) rights-of-way used for the purposes of | ||
| transporting people or goods by rail between at least two | ||
| terminuses. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 112.002, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(5), a company that | ||
| operates a high-speed rail system may not exercise the power of | ||
| eminent domain for the system. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 111.103(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2015. | ||
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