By: Phillips H.B. No. 2861
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional
mobility authority comprehensive development agreements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 223.201, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (f-1) and amending Subsections (g) and (j) to
read as follows:
(f-1) This subsection expires August 31, 2019.
Notwithstanding Subsection (f), the department may enter into a
comprehensive development agreement for:
(1) the Interstate Highway 35 project in Travis County
from Farm-to-Market Road 1431 to State Highway 45 Southeast;
(2) the Interstate Highway 45 North project in Harris
County from Beltway 8 to Interstate Highway 10;
(3) the Hempstead Managed Tollway project in Harris
County from State Highway 99 to the Interstate Highway
610/Interstate Highway 10 interchange;
(4) the Interstate Highway 30 project in Tarrant
County from Interstate Highway 35W to east of Fielder Road;
(5) the Interstate Highway 635 East project in Dallas
County from U.S. Highway 75 to Interstate Highway 30;
(6) the Interstate Highway 35E project in Dallas and
Denton Counties from Interstate Highway 635 to U.S. Highway 380;
and
(7) the Interstate Highway 35 project in Bexar,
Guadalupe, and Comal Counties from AT&T Center Parkway to
Farm-to-Market Road 1103.
(g) The department may combine in a comprehensive
development agreement under this subchapter:
(1) a toll project and a rail facility as defined by
Section 91.001; or
(2) two or more projects described by this section
[Subsection (f)].
(j) Before the department may enter into a comprehensive
development agreement under this section [Subsection (f)], the
department must:
(1) for a project other than the State Highway 99
(Grand Parkway) project, 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 223.2011, Transportation Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b) and
(f) to read as follows:
(a-1) This subsection expires August 31, 2019.
Notwithstanding Sections 223.201(f) and 370.305(c), the department
or a regional mobility authority may enter into a comprehensive
development agreement for:
(1) the Loop 1604 project in Bexar County from
Interstate Highway 35 to State Highway 16;
(2) the Outer Parkway project in Cameron County from
U.S. Highway 77 to Farm-to-Market Road 1847;
(3) the South Padre Island Second Access Causeway
project from State Highway 100 to Park Road 100;
(4) the Hidalgo County Loop project;
(5) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project;
(6) the Farm-to-Market 1925 project in Cameron and
Hidalgo Counties;
(7) the U.S. Highway 83 La Joya Relief Route project in
Hidalgo County; and
(8) the State Highway 68 project in Hidalgo County.
(b) Before the department or an authority may enter into a
comprehensive development agreement under this section, the
department or the authority, as applicable, must:
(1) obtain 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
[meet the requirements under Section 223.201(j)].
(f) The authority to enter into a comprehensive development
agreement under Subsection (a) [this section] expires August 31,
2017.
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, 2017.