86R7188 JTS-F
By: Martinez H.B. No. 1644
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(b), Transportation Code, is
transferred to Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
redesignated as Section 223.2001, Transportation Code, and amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2001. DEFINITION. [(b)] In this subchapter,
"comprehensive development agreement" means an agreement that, at a
minimum, provides for the design and construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, expansion, or improvement of a project described in
Section 223.201(a) [Subsection (a)] and may also provide for the
financing, acquisition, maintenance, or operation of a project
described in that section [Subsection (a)].
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 223.2002 to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2002. LIMITATION. The department may enter into a
comprehensive development agreement only:
(1) for specific projects authorized under this
subchapter; or
(2) as provided by Subchapter F.
SECTION 3. Sections 223.201(f) and (g), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(f) The department may enter into a comprehensive
development agreement [only] for all or part of[:
[(1)] the State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) project[;
[(2) the Interstate Highway 35E managed lanes project
in Dallas and Denton Counties from Interstate Highway 635 to U.S.
Highway 380;
[(3) the Interstate Highway 35W project in Tarrant
County from Interstate Highway 30 to State Highway 114;
[(4) the State Highway 183 managed lanes project in
Tarrant and Dallas Counties from State Highway 121 to Interstate
Highway 35E;
[(5) the Interstate Highway 35E/U.S. Highway 67
Southern Gateway project in Dallas County, including:
[(A) Interstate Highway 35E from 8th Street to
Interstate Highway 20; and
[(B) U.S. Highway 67 from Interstate Highway 35E
to Farm-to-Market Road 1382 (Belt Line Road);
[(6) the State Highway 288 project from U.S. Highway
59 to south of State Highway 6 in Brazoria County and Harris County;
[(7) the U.S. Highway 290 managed lanes project in
Harris County from Interstate Highway 610 to State Highway 99;
[(8) the Interstate Highway 820 project from State
Highway 183 to Randol Mill Road;
[(9) the State Highway 114 project in Dallas County
from State Highway 121 to State Highway 183;
[(10) the Loop 12 project in Dallas County from State
Highway 183 to Interstate Highway 35E;
[(11) the Loop 9 project in Dallas and Ellis Counties
from Interstate Highway 20 to U.S. Highway 67; and
[(12) the U.S. Highway 181 Harbor Bridge project in
Nueces County between U.S. Highway 181 at Beach Avenue and
Interstate Highway 37].
(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 for which the department is
authorized under this subchapter to enter into a comprehensive
development agreement [described by Subsection (f)].
SECTION 4. Section 223.2012(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) In this section, the North Tarrant Express project is
the project on Interstate Highway 35W in Tarrant County from
Interstate Highway 30 to State Highway 114 that was [described by
Section 223.201(f)(3)] entered into on June 23, 2009.
SECTION 5. Subchapter E, Chapter 223, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 223.2014 to read as follows:
Sec. 223.2014. AUTHORIZED PROJECTS. (a) The department
may enter into a comprehensive development agreement for:
(1) the Interstate Highway 35 project in Travis and
Williamson Counties from Ranch-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) a project listed under Section 370.3051.
(b) This section expires August 31, 2029.
SECTION 6. Section 370.305(c), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) An authority may enter into a comprehensive development
agreement only:
(1) for specific projects authorized under this
subchapter; or
(2) as provided by Subchapter K [Except as provided by
this chapter, an authority's authority to enter into a
comprehensive development agreement expires on August 31, 2011].
SECTION 7. Subchapter G, Chapter 370, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 370.3051 to read as follows:
Sec. 370.3051. AUTHORIZED PROJECTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS. (a) A regional mobility authority may
enter into a comprehensive development agreement for:
(1) the Interstate Highway 35 Northeast Expansion
project, from Loop 410 South in Bexar County to Farm-to-Market Road
1103 in Comal County;
(2) the Loop 1604 project in Bexar County;
(3) the Outer Parkway project in Cameron County from
U.S. Highway 77 to Farm-to-Market Road 1847;
(4) the South Padre Island Second Access Causeway
project in Cameron County from State Highway 100 to Park Road 100;
(5) the Farm-to-Market 1925 project from U.S. Highway
281 in Hidalgo County to U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County;
(6) the Hidalgo County Loop project;
(7) the International Bridge Trade Corridor project in
Hidalgo County;
(8) the U.S. Highway 83 La Joya Relief Route project in
Hidalgo County;
(9) the State Highway 68 project in Hidalgo County;
(10) the U.S. Highway 290 West project in Travis
County from Loop 1 to Ranch-to-Market Road 1826 (Oak Hill Parkway);
(11) the Loop 1 South project in Travis County from
Cesar Chavez Street to Slaughter Lane; and
(12) the Loop 49 project:
(A) in Smith County from Interstate Highway 20 to
U.S. Highway 69 (Lindale Relief Route); and
(B) from State Highway 110 in Smith County to
U.S. Highway 259 in Gregg County (Segments 6 and 7).
(b) This section expires August 31, 2029.
SECTION 8. The following provisions of the Transportation
Code are repealed:
(1) Sections 223.201(i), (j), (k), (l), and (m); and
(2) Section 223.2011.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.