86R5841 JTS-D
By: Martinez H.B. No. 1646
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; EXPIRATION. (a) The
department may enter into a comprehensive development agreement for
any project for which the department was authorized to enter into a
comprehensive development agreement on September 1, 2013.
(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; EXPIRATION. (a) A regional mobility
authority may enter into a comprehensive development agreement for
any project for which the authority was authorized to enter into a
comprehensive development agreement on September 1, 2013.
(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.