Bill Text: TX SB1645 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the approval by the Texas Department of Transportation of certain transportation projects of a regional mobility authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Referred to Transportation [SB1645 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1645-Introduced.html
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By: Watson | S.B. No. 1645 |
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relating to the approval by the Texas Department of Transportation | ||
of certain transportation projects of a regional mobility | ||
authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 370.038(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall adopt rules that: | ||
(1) govern the creation of an authority; | ||
(2) govern [ |
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this chapter; | ||
(3) establish design and construction standards for a | ||
transportation project that will connect with a highway in the | ||
state highway system or a department rail facility; | ||
(4) establish minimum audit and reporting | ||
requirements and standards; | ||
(5) establish minimum ethical standards for authority | ||
directors and employees; and | ||
(6) govern the authority of an authority to contract | ||
with the United Mexican States or a state of the United Mexican | ||
States. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 370.187(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall establish procedures and | ||
criteria for the department's [ |
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project that will connect with a highway in the state highway system | ||
or a department rail facility [ |
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and criteria [ |
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(1) be based on safety and operational considerations; | ||
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(2) require the department [ |
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request for project approval not later than the 60th day after the | ||
date the department receives all information reasonably necessary | ||
to review the request. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 370.187(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 370.187, Transportation Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to a request for approval of a project | ||
that is submitted to the Texas Department of Transportation on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A request for approval of a | ||
project that is submitted before that date is governed by the law in | ||
effect on the date the request for approval was submitted, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
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, 2017. |