Bill Text: TX SB269 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to comprehensive development agreements of the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-28 - Referred to Transportation [SB269 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB269-Introduced.html
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By: Watson | S.B. No. 269 |
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relating to comprehensive development agreements of the Texas | ||
Department of Transportation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 223.201(f), (i), and (j), | ||
Transportation Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) The department may enter into a comprehensive | ||
development agreement only for all or part of: | ||
(1) the State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) project; | ||
(2) the Interstate Highway 35E managed lanes project | ||
in Dallas and Denton Counties from Interstate Highway 635 to U.S. | ||
Highway 380; | ||
(3) the Interstate Highway 35W project in Tarrant | ||
County from Interstate Highway 30 to State Highway 114; | ||
(4) the State Highway 183 managed lanes project in | ||
Tarrant and Dallas Counties from State Highway 121 to Interstate | ||
Highway 35E; | ||
(5) the Interstate Highway 35E/U.S. Highway 67 | ||
Southern Gateway project in Dallas County, including: | ||
(A) Interstate Highway 35E from 8th Street to | ||
Interstate Highway 20; and | ||
(B) U.S. Highway 67 from Interstate Highway 35E | ||
to Farm-to-Market Road 1382 (Belt Line Road); | ||
(6) the State Highway 288 project from U.S. Highway 59 | ||
to south of State Highway 6 in Brazoria County and Harris County; | ||
(7) the U.S. Highway 290 managed lanes project in | ||
Harris County from Interstate Highway 610 to State Highway 99; | ||
(8) the Interstate Highway 820 project from State | ||
Highway 183 to Randol Mill Road; | ||
(9) the State Highway 114 project in Dallas County | ||
from State Highway 121 to State Highway 183; | ||
(10) the Loop 12 project in Dallas County from State | ||
Highway 183 to Interstate Highway 35E; | ||
(11) the Loop 9 project in Dallas and Ellis Counties | ||
from Interstate Highway 20 to U.S. Highway 67; [ |
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(12) the U.S. Highway 181 Harbor Bridge project in | ||
Nueces County between U.S. Highway 181 at Beach Avenue and | ||
Interstate Highway 37; and | ||
(13) the Interstate Highway 35 project in Travis | ||
County. | ||
(i) The authority to enter into a comprehensive development | ||
agreement expires: | ||
(1) August 31, 2017, for a project described by | ||
Subsection (f), other than the State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) | ||
project, [ |
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Interstate Highway 35 project in Travis County; and | ||
(2) August 31, 2015, for the State Highway 183 managed | ||
lanes project. | ||
(j) Before the department may enter into a comprehensive | ||
development agreement under Subsection (f), the department must: | ||
(1) for a project other than the State Highway 99 | ||
(Grand Parkway) project or the Interstate Highway 35 project in | ||
Travis County, obtain, not later than August 31, 2017, the | ||
appropriate environmental clearance: | ||
(A) for the project; or | ||
(B) for the initial or base scope of the project | ||
if the project agreement provides for the phased construction of | ||
the project; and | ||
(2) present to the commission a full financial plan | ||
for the project, including costing methodology and cost proposals. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 223.201(k), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |