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1	1	H.B. No. 4797
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to training on the treatment of toll project roadways
6	6	during inclement weather.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code,
9	9	is amended by adding Section 372.059 to read as follows:
10	10	Sec. 372.059. TREATMENT OF TOLL ROADWAY DURING INCLEMENT
11	11	WEATHER. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f), a toll
12	12	project entity that treats a roadway maintained by the entity
13	13	during icy or snowy weather shall require each employee or
14	14	contractor who develops and supervises a plan for roadway treatment
15	15	to complete a training course on treating roadways during icy or
16	16	snowy weather in the same manner as a department employee who treats
17	17	roadways during icy or snowy weather.
18	18	(b) The department, in coordination with public toll
19	19	project entities:
20	20	(1) shall make training courses that the department
21	21	provides to department employees who develop and supervise plans
22	22	for roadway treatment available to a person required to receive
23	23	training under Subsection (a); and
24	24	(2) may adopt rules as necessary to implement this
25	25	section.
26	26	(c) The department, in coordination with toll project
27	27	entities, shall identify the types of employees and contractors who
28	28	are subject to the training requirements under Subsection (a).
29	29	(d) A training course described by Subsection (b) must
30	30	include instruction regarding:
31	31	(1) prioritizing treatment of elevated structures and
32	32	other roadway elements that pose the highest risk to public health
33	33	and safety during icy or snowy weather;
34	34	(2) timing of treatment of roadways during icy or
35	35	snowy weather; and
36	36	(3) treatment of general purpose lanes adjacent to a
37	37	toll project.
38	38	(e) The department may authorize a toll project entity to
39	39	require that an employee or contractor required to receive training
40	40	under Subsection (a) complete a training course provided by another
41	41	entity that includes substantially the same information as a course
42	42	provided by the department.
43	43	(f) For a roadway that is subject to a comprehensive
44	44	development agreement entered into by the department or a public
45	45	toll project entity under which a private participant is
46	46	responsible for maintaining the roadway, the private participant is
47	47	responsible for requiring each employee or contractor of the
48	48	private participant who develops and supervises a plan for roadway
49	49	treatment to complete the training required by Subsection (a).
50	50	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
51	51	______________________________ ______________________________
52	52	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
53	53	I certify that H.B. No. 4797 was passed by the House on April
54	54	21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not
55	55	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
56	56	No. 4797 on May 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
57	57	1 present, not voting.
58	58	______________________________
59	59	Chief Clerk of the House
60	60	I certify that H.B. No. 4797 was passed by the Senate, with
61	61	amendments, on May 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
62	62	0.
63	63	______________________________
64	64	Secretary of the Senate
65	65	APPROVED: __________________
66	66	Date
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68	68	Governor