Bill Text: TX HB634 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 634 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to toll project information provided by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-11 - Left pending in committee [HB634 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB634-Comm_Sub.html

	82R1396 JAM-D

	By: McClendon, Harper-Brown	H.B. No. 634



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to toll project information provided by the Texas

	Department of Transportation.

	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

	SECTION 1. Section 228.004, Transportation Code, is amended

	to read as follows:

	Sec. 228.004. [~~PROMOTION OF~~] TOLL PROJECT INFORMATION. (a)

	The department may, notwithstanding Chapter 2113, Government Code:

	(1) [,] engage in marketing, advertising, and other

	activities to provide information relating to:

	(A) the status of pending or ongoing [~~promote the~~

	~~development and use of~~] toll projects; or

	(B) the use and availability of toll tags or

	other toll-related resources available to the public; and

	(2) [~~may~~] enter into contracts or agreements necessary

	to procure marketing, advertising, or informational [~~other~~

	~~promotional~~] services from outside service providers to provide the

	information described by Subdivision (1).

	(b) This section does not authorize the department to engage

	in marketing, advertising, or other activities for the purpose of

	influencing public opinion about the use of toll roads or the use of

	tolls as a financial mechanism or promoting or advocating for the

	benefits of toll roads.

	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only

	to a contract or agreement entered into or renewed under Section

	228.004, Transportation Code, on or after the effective date of

	this Act. A contract or agreement entered into or renewed under

	that section before the effective date of this Act is governed by

	the law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is

	continued in effect for that purpose.

	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.