Bill Text: TX HB2605 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the funding of certain port projects.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-10 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2605 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2605-Comm_Sub.html
88R15063 SRA-F | |||
By: Canales | H.B. No. 2605 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2605: | |||
By: Canales | C.S.H.B. No. 2605 |
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relating to the funding of certain port projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 55, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 55. FUNDING OF PORT DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE | ||
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SECTION 2. Sections 55.001(4-a) and (5), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(4-a) "Port connectivity [ |
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project" means the construction or improvement of public roadways | ||
that will enhance connectivity to ports. | ||
(5) "Port development and infrastructure [ |
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security, transportation, or facility [ |
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or convenient for the proper operation of a maritime port and that | ||
will improve the security, movement, and intermodal transportation | ||
of cargo or passengers in commerce and trade. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 55.002, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsections (a), (c), and (e) and adding Subsection (f) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) From money in the fund, the department shall fund: | ||
(1) port development and infrastructure [ |
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(2) maritime port studies. | ||
(c) Port development and infrastructure [ |
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this chapter include: | ||
(1) construction or improvement of transportation | ||
facilities within the jurisdiction of a maritime port; | ||
(2) the dredging or deepening of channels, turning | ||
basins, or harbors; | ||
(3) the construction or improvement of wharves, docks, | ||
structures, jetties, piers, storage facilities, cruise terminals, | ||
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committee, in connection with maritime port transportation or | ||
economic development; | ||
(4) the construction or improvement of facilities | ||
necessary or useful in providing maritime port security; | ||
(5) the acquisition of container cranes or other | ||
mechanized equipment used in the movement of cargo or passengers in | ||
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(6) the acquisition of land to be used for maritime | ||
port purposes; | ||
(7) the acquisition, improvement, enlargement, or | ||
extension of existing maritime port facilities; and | ||
(8) environmental protection projects that: | ||
(A) are required as a condition of a state, | ||
federal, or local environmental permit or other form of approval; | ||
(B) are necessary for the acquisition of spoil | ||
disposal sites and improvements to existing and future spoil sites; | ||
or | ||
(C) result from the undertaking of eligible | ||
projects. | ||
(e) The commission may use money from the Texas Mobility | ||
Fund to provide funding for a port connectivity [ |
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(f) An applicant eligible for funding under this section may | ||
not receive more than 20 percent of the total amount of money | ||
appropriated to the department in a fiscal biennium to fund | ||
eligible projects under this section. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 55.005, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The following money shall be credited to the fund: | ||
(1) money received from gifts, grants, and donations; | ||
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(2) interest earned on deposits and investments of the | ||
fund; | ||
(3) money appropriated to the fund by the legislature; | ||
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(4) money received from the federal government. | ||
(c) Money in the fund may be appropriated only to the | ||
department to perform the department's powers and duties concerning | ||
maritime port transportation and economic development under this | ||
chapter and to pay the department's expenses incurred under this | ||
chapter, as approved by the committee. | ||
(c-1) Money appropriated by the legislature under | ||
Subsection (b)(3) may only be used to fund eligible port | ||
development and infrastructure projects under Section 55.002. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |