Bill Text: TX HB3498 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the construction of nontolled frontage roads adjacent to certain toll projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Transportation [HB3498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3498-Introduced.html
87R2079 JAM-D | ||
By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 3498 |
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relating to the construction of nontolled frontage roads adjacent | ||
to certain toll projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 372.060 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 372.060. CONSTRUCTION OF NONTOLLED FRONTAGE ROAD | ||
REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN TOLL PROJECTS. (a) Except as provided by | ||
Section 228.201, a toll project entity may not construct a toll | ||
project along the route of a previously nontolled highway unless | ||
the entity constructs at least one adjacent nontolled lane of | ||
frontage road for each direction of travel of the toll project. | ||
(b) The lanes of frontage road described by Subsection (a) | ||
shall be maintained by the entity that had authority over the | ||
previously nontolled highway along which the toll project is | ||
constructed. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 372.060, Transportation Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to a toll project for which a contract for | ||
financing, construction, or operation is entered into on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A toll project for which a contract | ||
was entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law as it existed at the time the contract was entered into, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |