Bill Text: TX HB4514 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to revenue enhancement by the Texas Transportation Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Transportation [HB4514 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4514-Introduced.html
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By: Morales Shaw | H.B. No. 4514 |
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relating to revenue enhancement by the Texas Transportation | ||
Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 201.109(b), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) In carrying out this section, the commission shall | ||
provide for: | ||
(1) maximizing the generation of revenue from existing | ||
assets of the department, including real estate and rights-of-way; | ||
(2) increasing the role of the private sector and | ||
public-private projects in the leasing of real estate and other | ||
assets in the development of highway projects; | ||
(3) setting and attempting to meet annual revenue | ||
enhancement goals; | ||
(4) reporting on the progress in meeting revenue | ||
enhancement goals in the department's annual report; | ||
(5) contracting for an independent audit of the | ||
department's management and business operations in 2007 and each | ||
12th year after 2007; | ||
(6) developing a cost-benefit analysis between the use | ||
of local materials previously incorporated into roadways versus use | ||
of materials blended or transported from other sources; [ |
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(7) increasing private investment in the | ||
transportation infrastructure, including the acquisition of | ||
causeways, bridges, tunnels, turnpikes, or other transportation | ||
facilities, in the border region, including the counties of | ||
Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron, Crockett, | ||
Culberson, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, El Paso, Frio, Hidalgo, | ||
Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kerr, Kimble, | ||
Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, | ||
Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Real, Reeves, San Patricio, Starr, Sutton, | ||
Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Willacy, Zapata, and Zavala; and | ||
(8) developing a cost-benefit analysis of the | ||
potential local and state budget impacts of implementing new | ||
highway design concepts, including highway capping and stitching | ||
projects, highway capping projects that restore the historic urban | ||
street grid and allow for dense walkable development, and projects | ||
to convert highways to urban boulevards. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |