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1		-	By: Miller, Zerwas, Reynolds H.B. No. 2557
2		-	(Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst)
3		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2017;
4		-	May 15, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
5		-	Transportation; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following
6		-	vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 2557
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10		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	4		AN ACT
12	5		relating to the development of certain local government
13	6		transportation infrastructure projects; authorizing the issuance
14	7		of bonds.
15	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
16	9		SECTION 1. Section 172.001, Transportation Code, is amended
17	10		by adding Subdivision (4-a) and amending Subdivision (7) to read as
18	11		follows:
19	12		(4-a) "Intelligent transportation system" means:
20	13		(A) innovative or intelligent technological
21	14		transportation systems, infrastructure, or facilities, including
22	15		elevated freight transportation facilities:
23	16		(i) in proximity to, or within, an existing
24	17		right-of-way on the state highway system; or
25	18		(ii) that connect land ports of entry to the
26	19		state highway system;
27	20		(B) communications or information processing
28	21		systems that improve the efficiency, security, or safety of freight
29	22		movement on the state highway system, including improving the
30	23		conveyance of freight on dedicated intelligent freight lanes; or
31	24		(C) a transportation facility or system that
32	25		increases truck freight efficiencies in the boundaries of an
33	26		intermodal facility or hub.
34	27		(7) "Rail facilities" means:
35	28		(A) passenger or freight rail facilities,
36	29		including:
37	30		(i) tracks;
38	31		(ii) a rail line;
39	32		(iii) switching, signaling, or other
40	33		operating equipment;
41	34		(iv) a depot;
42	35		(v) a locomotive;
43	36		(vi) rolling stock;
44	37		(vii) a maintenance facility; and
45	38		(viii) other real and personal property
46	39		associated with a rail operation;
47	40		(B) an intermodal hub;
48	41		(C) an automated conveyor belt for the movement
49	42		of freight;
50	43		(D) an intelligent transportation system that
51	44		operates with or as part of facilities described by Paragraphs
52	45		(A)-(C); or
53	46		(E) a system of facilities described by
54	47		Paragraphs (A)-(D) [property, or an interest in that property, that
55	48		the board determines is necessary or convenient to provide a rural
56	49		rail transportation system; and
57	50		[(B) property or an interest necessary or
58	51		convenient to acquire, provide, construct, enlarge, remodel,
59	52		renovate, improve, furnish, use, or equip the system, including:
60	53		[(i) a right-of-way;
61	54		[(ii) an earthwork or structure, including
62	55		clearing and grubbing of right-of-way, demolition of a structure,
63	56		relocation of utilities, a pipeline, or any other obstacle in a
64	57		right-of-way, stripping and stockpiling, removal of subsoil for
65	58		embankment or spoil, a borrow pit, dressing and seeding of a slope,
66	59		construction of a culvert, a road crossing, a bridge, restoration
67	60		of a roadway, drainage within a right-of-way or along a road
68	61		network, and restoration of a hydrologic system;
69	62		[(iii) trackwork;
70	63		[(iv) a train control, including
71	64		signalling, interlocking equipment, speed monitoring equipment, an
72	65		emergency braking system, a central traffic control facility, and a
73	66		communication system;
74	67		[(v) a passenger or freight service
75	68		building, terminal, or station, a ticketing facility, a waiting
76	69		area, a platform, a concession, an elevator, an escalator, a
77	70		facility for handicapped access, an access road, a parking facility
78	71		for passengers, a baggage handling facility, a local maintenance
79	72		facility, and offices for district purposes and includes an
80	73		interest in real property necessary or convenient for an item
81	74		listed under this subparagraph;
82	75		[(vi) rolling stock; and
83	76		[(vii) a maintenance facility].
84	77		SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 172, Transportation Code,
85	78		is amended by adding Section 172.211 to read as follows:
86	79		Sec. 172.211. OTHER POWERS OF COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND
87	80		NAVIGATION DISTRICT. (a) This section applies only to a county
88	81		that:
89	82		(1) is adjacent to a county with a population of four
90	83		million or more;
91	84		(2) has a population of 300,000 or more; and
92	85		(3) has created a district by concurrent order with an
93	86		adjacent county pursuant to Section 172.052.
94	87		(b) A county acting through the commissioners court or a
95	88		local government corporation may adopt an order that authorizes the
96	89		county and a navigation district located wholly or partly in the
97	90		county to:
98	91		(1) develop rail facilities as a qualifying project
99	92		under Chapter 2267, Government Code; and
100	93		(2) issue bonds for rail facilities secured by a
101	94		pledge of the revenues of the facilities, including contract
102	95		revenue, grant revenue, or other revenue collected in connection
103	96		with the facilities.
104	97		(c) If each county that created a district adopts an order
105	98		described by Subsection (b), the district may exercise the powers
106	99		described by that subsection.
107	100		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
108	101		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
109	102		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
110	103		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
111	104		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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	105	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	106	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	107	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2557 was passed by the House on May
	108	+	12, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 12, 1 present, not
	109	+	voting.
	110	+	______________________________
	111	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	112	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2557 was passed by the Senate on May
	113	+	24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
	114	+	______________________________
	115	+	Secretary of the Senate
	116	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	117	+	Date
	118	+	_____________________
	119	+	Governor