Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3825 Compare Versions

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1	1	85R12128 JTS-F
2	2	By: Simmons H.B. No. 3825
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the application for federal highway and rail funds by a
8	8	regional mobility authority.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 370.033(a), Transportation Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	(a) An authority, through its board, may:
13	13	(1) adopt rules for the regulation of its affairs and
14	14	the conduct of its business;
15	15	(2) adopt an official seal;
16	16	(3) study, evaluate, design, finance, acquire,
17	17	construct, maintain, repair, and operate transportation projects,
18	18	individually or as one or more systems, provided that a
19	19	transportation project that is subject to Subpart C, 23 C.F.R. Part
20	20	450, is:
21	21	(A) included in the plan approved by the
22	22	applicable metropolitan planning organization; and
23	23	(B) consistent with the statewide transportation
24	24	plan and the statewide transportation improvement program;
25	25	(4) acquire, hold, and dispose of property in the
26	26	exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under this
27	27	chapter;
28	28	(5) enter into contracts or operating agreements with
29	29	a similar authority, another governmental entity, or an agency of
30	30	the United States, a state of the United States, the United Mexican
31	31	States, or a state of the United Mexican States;
32	32	(6) enter into contracts or agreements necessary or
33	33	incidental to its powers and duties under this chapter;
34	34	(7) cooperate and work directly with property owners
35	35	and governmental entities and officials to support an activity
36	36	required to promote or develop a transportation project;
37	37	(8) employ and set the compensation and benefits of
38	38	administrators, consulting engineers, attorneys, accountants,
39	39	construction and financial experts, superintendents, managers,
40	40	full-time and part-time employees, agents, consultants, and other
41	41	persons as the authority considers necessary or useful;
42	42	(8-a) participate in the state travel management
43	43	program administered by the comptroller for the purpose of
44	44	obtaining reduced airline fares and reduced travel agent fees,
45	45	provided that the comptroller may charge the authority a fee not to
46	46	exceed the costs incurred by the comptroller in providing services
47	47	to the authority;
48	48	(9) notwithstanding Sections 221.003 and 222.031 and
49	49	subject to Subsection [Subsections (j) and] (m), apply for,
50	50	directly or indirectly receive and spend loans, gifts, grants, and
51	51	other contributions for any purpose of this chapter, including the
52	52	construction of a transportation project, and receive and spend
53	53	contributions of money, property, labor, or other things of value
54	54	from any source, including the United States, a state of the United
55	55	States, the United Mexican States, a state of the United Mexican
56	56	States, the commission, the department, a subdivision of this
57	57	state, or a governmental entity or private entity, to be used for
58	58	the purposes for which the grants, loans, or contributions are
59	59	made, and enter into any agreement necessary for the grants, loans,
60	60	or contributions;
61	61	(10) install, construct, or contract for the
62	62	construction of public utility facilities, direct the time and
63	63	manner of construction of a public utility facility in, on, along,
64	64	over, or under a transportation project, or request the removal or
65	65	relocation of a public utility facility in, on, along, over, or
66	66	under a transportation project;
67	67	(11) organize a corporation under Chapter 431 for the
68	68	promotion and development of transportation projects;
69	69	(12) adopt and enforce rules not inconsistent with
70	70	this chapter for the use of any transportation project, including
71	71	tolls, fares, or other user fees, speed and weight limits, and
72	72	traffic and other public safety rules, provided that an authority
73	73	must consider the same factors that the Texas Turnpike Authority
74	74	division of the department must consider in altering a prima facie
75	75	speed limit under Section 545.354;
76	76	(13) enter into leases, operating agreements, service
77	77	agreements, licenses, franchises, and similar agreements with a
78	78	public or private party governing the party's use of all or any
79	79	portion of a transportation project and the rights and obligations
80	80	of the authority with respect to a transportation project;
81	81	(14) borrow money from or enter into a loan agreement
82	82	or other arrangement with the state infrastructure bank, the
83	83	department, the commission, or any other public or private entity;
84	84	and
85	85	(15) do all things necessary or appropriate to carry
86	86	out the powers and duties expressly granted or imposed by this
87	87	chapter.
88	88	SECTION 2. Section 370.033(j), Transportation Code, is
89	89	repealed.
90	90	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
91	91	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
92	92	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
93	93	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
94	94	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.