Bill Text: TX SB163 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to agreements between a regional tollway authority and a local governmental entity governing the ownership, construction, maintenance, and operation of toll projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-31 - Referred to Transportation & Homeland Sec. [SB163 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB163-Introduced.html
  82R486 SLB-F
 
  By: Shapiro S.B. No. 163
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to agreements between a regional tollway authority and a
  local governmental entity governing the ownership, construction,
  maintenance, and operation of toll projects.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 366.303, Transportation Code, is amended
  by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (f) and (g) to
  read as follows:
         (d)  The term of an agreement under Subsections (a) through
  (c) [this section] may not exceed 40 years.
         (f)  Except as provided by Subsection (g), a local
  governmental entity may not own, construct, maintain, or operate a
  turnpike project or other toll project, as that term is defined by
  Section 201.001, in a county that is part of an authority unless the
  local governmental entity and the authority enter into a written
  agreement specifying the terms and conditions under which the
  project will be undertaken.
         (g)  Subsection (f) does not apply to a turnpike project or
  toll project located in a county to which an authority has
  transferred under Section 366.036 or leased, sold, or conveyed
  under Section 366.172:
               (1)  all turnpike projects of the authority that are
  located in the county; and
               (2)  all work product developed by the authority in
  determining the feasibility of the construction, improvement,
  extension, or expansion of a turnpike project to be located in the
  county.
         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, 2011.
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