By: Kolkhorst, et al. S.B. No. 399
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to nontolled lanes on a highway that has been converted
from a nontolled highway to a toll project.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 228.201, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) In determining the number of nontolled lanes required to
comply with Subsection (a)(3), the department:
(1) may consider only a general-purpose lane that is
part of the highway; and
(2) may not consider a lane of a frontage road to be a
nontolled lane before or after reconstruction of the highway.
SECTION 2. Section 228.201(c), Transportation Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a highway reconstruction in
accordance with Section 228.201(a)(3), Transportation Code, that
is begun on or after the effective date of this Act. A
reconstruction begun before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect when the reconstruction began, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.