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1	1	85R22202 JTS-F
2	2	By: Phillips, Martinez, Israel H.B. No. 2861
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2861:
4	4	By: Phillips C.S.H.B. No. 2861
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to Texas Department of Transportation and regional
10	10	mobility authority comprehensive development agreements.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 223.201, Transportation Code, is amended
13	13	by adding Subsection (f-1) and amending Subsections (g) and (j) to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(f-1) This subsection expires August 31, 2021.
16	16	Notwithstanding Subsection (f), the department may enter into a
17	17	comprehensive development agreement for:
18	18	(1) the Interstate Highway 35 project in Travis and
19	19	Williamson Counties from Ranch-to-Market Road 1431 to State Highway
20	20	45 Southeast;
21	21	(2) the Interstate Highway 45 North project in Harris
22	22	County from Beltway 8 to Interstate Highway 10;
23	23	(3) the Hempstead Managed Tollway project in Harris
24	24	County from State Highway 99 to the Interstate Highway
25	25	610/Interstate Highway 10 interchange;
26	26	(4) the Interstate Highway 30 project in Tarrant
27	27	County from Interstate Highway 35W to east of Fielder Road;
28	28	(5) the Interstate Highway 635 East project in Dallas
29	29	County from U.S. Highway 75 to Interstate Highway 30; and
30	30	(6) the Interstate Highway 35E project in Dallas and
31	31	Denton Counties from Interstate Highway 635 to U.S. Highway 380.
32	32	(g) The department may combine in a comprehensive
33	33	development agreement under this subchapter:
34	34	(1) a toll project and a rail facility as defined by
35	35	Section 91.001; or
36	36	(2) two or more projects described by this section
37	37	[Subsection (f)].
38	38	(j) Before the department may enter into a comprehensive
39	39	development agreement under this section [Subsection (f)], the
40	40	department must:
41	41	(1) for a project other than the State Highway 99
42	42	(Grand Parkway) project, obtain[, not later than August 31, 2017,]
43	43	the appropriate environmental clearance:
44	44	(A) for the project; or
45	45	(B) for the initial or base scope of the project
46	46	if the project agreement provides for the phased construction of
47	47	the project; and
48	48	(2) present to the commission a full financial plan
49	49	for the project, including costing methodology and cost proposals.
50	50	SECTION 2. Section 223.2011, Transportation Code, is
51	51	amended by adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b) and
52	52	(f) to read as follows:
53	53	(a-1) This subsection expires August 31, 2021.
54	54	Notwithstanding Sections 223.201(f) and 370.305(c), the department
55	55	or a regional mobility authority may enter into a comprehensive
56	56	development agreement for:
57	57	(1) the Interstate Highway 35 Northeast Expansion
58	58	project, from Loop 410 South in Bexar County to Farm-to-Market Road
59	59	1103 in Comal County;
60	60	(2) the Loop 1604 project in Bexar County;
61	61	(3) the Outer Parkway project in Cameron County from
62	62	U.S. Highway 77 to Farm-to-Market Road 1847;
63	63	(4) the South Padre Island Second Access Causeway
64	64	project in Cameron County from State Highway 100 to Park Road 100;
65	65	(5) the Farm-to-Market 1925 project from U.S. Highway
66	66	281 in Hidalgo County to U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County;
67	67	(6) the Hidalgo County Loop project;
68	68	(7) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project in
69	69	Hidalgo County;
70	70	(8) the U.S. Highway 83 La Joya Relief Route project in
71	71	Hidalgo County;
72	72	(9) the State Highway 68 project in Hidalgo County;
73	73	(10) the U.S. Highway 290 West project in Travis
74	74	County from Loop 1 to Ranch-to-Market Road 1826 (Oak Hill Parkway);
75	75	(11) the Loop 1 South project in Travis County from
76	76	Cesar Chavez Street to Slaughter Lane; and
77	77	(12) the Loop 49 project:
78	78	(A) in Smith County from Interstate Highway 20 to
79	79	U.S. Highway 69 (Lindale Relief Route); and
80	80	(B) from State Highway 110 in Smith County to
81	81	U.S. Highway 259 in Gregg County (Segments 6 and 7).
82	82	(b) Before the department or an authority may enter into a
83	83	comprehensive development agreement under this section, the
84	84	department or the authority, as applicable, must:
85	85	(1) obtain the appropriate environmental clearance:
86	86	(A) for the project; or
87	87	(B) for the initial or base scope of the project
88	88	if the project agreement provides for the phased construction of
89	89	the project; and
90	90	(2) present to the commission a full financial plan
91	91	for the project, including costing methodology and cost proposals
92	92	[meet the requirements under Section 223.201(j)].
93	93	(f) The authority to enter into a comprehensive development
94	94	agreement under Subsection (a) [this section] expires August 31,
95	95	2017.
96	96	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
97	97	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
98	98	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
99	99	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
100	100	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.