Bill Text: TX HB1280 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the payment of an examination fee to the attorney general for the legal sufficiency review of a comprehensive development agreement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-11 - Left pending in committee [HB1280 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1280-Introduced.html
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| By: Kolkhorst | H.B. No. 1280 | |
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| relating to the payment of an examination fee to the attorney | ||
| general for the legal sufficiency review of a comprehensive | ||
| development agreement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 371.051, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 371.051. ATTORNEY GENERAL REVIEW AND EXAMINATION FEE. | ||
| (a) A toll project entity may not enter into a comprehensive | ||
| development agreement unless the attorney general reviews the | ||
| proposed agreement and determines that it is legally sufficient. | ||
| (b) A toll project entity shall pay a nonrefundable | ||
| examination fee to the attorney general on submitting a proposed | ||
| comprehensive development agreement for review. | ||
| (c) If the toll project entity submits multiple proposed | ||
| comprehensive development agreements relating to the same toll | ||
| project for review, the entity shall pay the examination fee under | ||
| Subsection (b) for each proposed comprehensive development | ||
| agreement. | ||
| (d) The toll project entity may collect or seek | ||
| reimbursement of the examination fee under Subsection (b) from the | ||
| private participant under the proposed comprehensive development | ||
| agreement. | ||
| (e) The attorney general shall set the amount of the | ||
| examination fee required under Subsection (b) and may adopt rules | ||
| necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The examination fee prescribed by Section | ||
| 371.051, Transportation Code, as amended by this Act, applies only | ||
| to a comprehensive development agreement submitted to the office of | ||
| the attorney general on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2011. | ||
