Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB220 Latest Draft

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                            By: Nichols, Watson S.B. No. 220


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to the conversion of a nontolled state highway or segment
 of the state highway system to a toll project.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 228.201, Transportation
 Code, is amended to read as follows:
 (a) The [Except as provided by Section 228.2015, the]
 department may not operate a nontolled state highway or a segment of
 a nontolled state highway as a toll project, and may not transfer a
 highway or segment to another entity for operation as a toll
 project, unless:
 (1) the commission by order designated the highway or
 segment as a toll project before the contract to construct the
 highway or segment was awarded;
 (2) the highway or segment was open to traffic as a
 turnpike project on or before September 1, 2005;
 (3) the project was designated as a toll project in a
 plan or program of a metropolitan planning organization on or
 before September 1, 2005;
 (4) the highway or segment is reconstructed so that
 the number of nontolled lanes on the highway or segment is greater
 than or equal to the number in existence before the reconstruction;
 (5) a facility that has access, function, and control
 devices similar to the converted highway or segment before
 conversion is constructed adjacent to the highway or segment so
 that the number of nontolled lanes on the converted highway or
 segment and the adjacent facility together is greater than or equal
 to the number in existence on the converted highway or segment
 before the conversion; or
 (6) subject to Subsection (b), the highway or segment
 was open to traffic as a high-occupancy vehicle lane on May 1,
 2005[; or
 [(7)     the commission converts the highway or segment to
 a toll facility by:
 [(A)     making the determination required by
 Section 228.202;
 [(B)     conducting the hearing required by Section
 228.203; and
 [(C)     obtaining county and voter approval as
 required by Sections 228.207 and 228.208].
 SECTION 2. Sections 228.202, 228.203, 228.207, and 228.208,
 Transportation Code, are repealed.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, 2009.