Bill Text: TX SB1512 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to payment of costs related to the relocation of certain political subdivision utility facilities for state highway projects.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB1512 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1512-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1512 | ||
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| relating to payment of costs related to the relocation of certain | ||
| political subdivision utility facilities for state highway | ||
| projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 203.092, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsections (a-4) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-4) Notwithstanding another provision of this section, a | ||
| utility shall make a relocation of a utility facility required by | ||
| improvement of the state highway system at the expense of this state | ||
| if the commission determines that: | ||
| (1) the utility is a political subdivision or is owned | ||
| or operated by a political subdivision; | ||
| (2) a financial condition would prevent the utility | ||
| from being able to pay the cost of relocation in full or in part at | ||
| the time of relocation or, if paid at that time, the payment would | ||
| adversely affect the utility's ability to operate or provide | ||
| essential services to its customers; and | ||
| (3) the utility: | ||
| (A) would not be able to receive a state | ||
| infrastructure bank loan under Subchapter D, Chapter 222, to | ||
| finance the cost of the relocation and is otherwise unable to | ||
| finance that cost; or | ||
| (B) is a political subdivision or is owned or | ||
| operated by a political subdivision that: | ||
| (i) has a population of less than 5,000; and | ||
| (ii) is located in a county that has been | ||
| included in at least five disaster declarations made by the | ||
| president of the United States in the six-year period preceding the | ||
| proposed date of the relocation. | ||
| (e) The total amount paid by the department for the | ||
| relocation of utility facilities under Subsection (a-4) may not | ||
| exceed $10 million in any fiscal year. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1512 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1512 passed the House on | ||
| May 14, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 7, | ||
| two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
