Bill Text: TX SB1601 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to railroads in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
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repealed.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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