Bill Text: TX SB1450 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain improvements of the state highway system in certain census tracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Transportation [SB1450 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1450-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 1450 | |
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| relating to certain improvements of the state highway system in | ||
| certain census tracts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 222, Transportation Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 222.0012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 222.0012. CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS OF STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM | ||
| IN CERTAIN CENSUS TRACTS PROHIBITED. (a) Notwithstanding any | ||
| other law, and subject to Subsection (b), money described by | ||
| Section 222.001(a) may not be used to expand or extend a highway of | ||
| the state highway system unless the department determines that the | ||
| expansion or extension is not located in a census tract classified | ||
| as medium or high vulnerability in the most recent social | ||
| vulnerability index published by the federal Centers for Disease | ||
| Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and | ||
| Disease Registry. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a multimodal | ||
| transportation project. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
