Bill Text: TX HB1394 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the composition, governance, and authority of a regional tollway authority that has or proposes to have projects located in counties that are not part of the authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1394 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1394-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1394 |
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relating to the composition, governance, and authority of a | ||
regional tollway authority that has or proposes to have projects | ||
located in counties that are not part of the authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 366.031, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A county that is not part of an authority and in which an | ||
authority turnpike project is located becomes part of the authority | ||
on the date the authority determines that: | ||
(1) recorded electronic toll collections at toll | ||
assessment facilities located in the county account for not less | ||
than four percent of all recorded electronic toll collections on | ||
all of the authority's turnpike projects; and | ||
(2) the population of the county is at least four | ||
percent of the aggregate population of all the counties of the | ||
authority, not including the county that will become part of the | ||
authority. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 366, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 366.0311 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 366.0311. ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PROJECTS LOCATED | ||
OUTSIDE AUTHORITY. (a) At the time an authority enters into a | ||
primary construction contract for its first project to be located | ||
in a county that is not part of the authority, the authority shall | ||
create an advisory committee to advise the board on matters related | ||
to projects located in counties that are not part of the authority. | ||
(b) The advisory committee must be composed of: | ||
(1) the director of the authority appointed by the | ||
governor, who serves as the chair of the committee; | ||
(2) an additional director of the authority appointed | ||
by the presiding officer of the board as the presiding officer deems | ||
appropriate; and | ||
(3) one member from each county that is not part of the | ||
authority and in which a project is proposed to be located, to be | ||
appointed by the commissioners court of that county at the time a | ||
primary construction contract for the project is entered into. | ||
(c) An advisory committee member appointed under Subsection | ||
(b)(3) is not a director of the authority for the purposes of | ||
Section 366.251 or any other purpose. | ||
(d) The board may adopt rules governing the operation and | ||
duties of an advisory committee. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 366.161, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 366.161. TURNPIKE PROJECTS EXTENDING INTO OTHER | ||
COUNTIES. An authority may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, | ||
expand, or extend a turnpike project in: | ||
(1) a county that is a part of the authority; or | ||
(2) subject to Sections 366.031(e) and 366.0311, a | ||
county in which the authority operates or is constructing a | ||
turnpike project if the turnpike project in the affected county is a | ||
continuation of the authority's turnpike project or system | ||
extending from an adjacent county. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 366.251(c), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) In addition to directors appointed by a commissioners | ||
court under Subsection (b), the commissioners courts of each county | ||
that created the authority under Section 366.031 [ |
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SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1394 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1394 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |