By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1253
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 13, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 8, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2013,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1253 By: Paxton
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the relationship between Texas Department of
Transportation toll projects and adjoining nontolled roads.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 228, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 228.014 to read as follows:
Sec. 228.014. PROHIBITION ON DISINCENTIVES FOR ADJOINING
NONTOLLED ROAD USE. (a) The department may not take any action in
designing, constructing, or operating a toll project under this
chapter that incentivizes the use of the project and discourages
the use of adjoining nontolled roads by violating sound engineering
judgment in applying traffic controls on any adjoining nontolled
roads, including by timing traffic signals to unnecessarily disrupt
traffic flow on the adjoining nontolled roads.
(b) If existing nontolled lanes are reconstructed and
operated as an adjacent road to a toll facility under Section
228.201(a)(5), the reconstructed nontolled lanes must have access,
function, and traffic control devices similar to those the lanes
had before being reconstructed.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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