Bill Text: TX HB1903 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of toll project revenue for air quality projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - Referred to Transportation [HB1903 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1903-Introduced.html
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By: Sanford | H.B. No. 1903 |
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relating to the use of toll project revenue for air quality | ||
projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 228.0055(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Payments, project savings, refinancing dividends, and | ||
any other revenue received by the commission or the department | ||
under a comprehensive development agreement shall be used by the | ||
commission or the department to finance the construction, | ||
maintenance, or operation of transportation projects [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 228.006(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall authorize the use of surplus | ||
revenue of a toll project or system to pay the costs of a highway or | ||
other transportation project[ |
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located. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 228.109(d), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), surplus revenue may be | ||
used for a transportation [ |
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Section 228.006. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 370.003(14), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(14) "Transportation project" means: | ||
(A) a turnpike project; | ||
(B) a system; | ||
(C) a passenger or freight rail facility, | ||
including: | ||
(i) tracks; | ||
(ii) a rail line; | ||
(iii) switching, signaling, or other | ||
operating equipment; | ||
(iv) a depot; | ||
(v) a locomotive; | ||
(vi) rolling stock; | ||
(vii) a maintenance facility; and | ||
(viii) other real and personal property | ||
associated with a rail operation; | ||
(D) a roadway with a functional classification | ||
greater than a local road or rural minor collector; | ||
(D-1) a bridge; | ||
(E) a ferry; | ||
(F) an airport, other than an airport that on | ||
September 1, 2005, was served by one or more air carriers engaged in | ||
scheduled interstate transportation, as those terms were defined by | ||
14 C.F.R. Section 1.1 on that date; | ||
(G) a pedestrian or bicycle facility; | ||
(H) an intermodal hub; | ||
(I) an automated conveyor belt for the movement | ||
of freight; | ||
(J) a border crossing inspection station, | ||
including: | ||
(i) a border crossing inspection station | ||
located at or near an international border crossing; and | ||
(ii) a border crossing inspection station | ||
located at or near a border crossing from another state of the | ||
United States and not more than 50 miles from an international | ||
border; | ||
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facility, or a collection device for parking fees; | ||
(N) if applicable, projects and programs listed | ||
in the most recently approved state implementation plan for the | ||
area covered by the authority, including an early action compact; | ||
(O) improvements in a transportation | ||
reinvestment zone designated under Subchapter E, Chapter 222; and | ||
(P) port security, transportation, or facility | ||
projects eligible for funding under Section 55.002. | ||
SECTION 5. Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 372.002 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 372.002. PROHIBITION ON USE OF TOLL REVENUE FOR AIR | ||
QUALITY PROJECTS. A toll project entity may not use toll revenue | ||
for projects that are intended solely to mitigate or prevent air | ||
pollution or other adverse environmental impacts. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 228.001(1), Transportation Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |