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
  87R11614 SRA-F
 
  By: Morales Shaw H.B. No. 4514
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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; [and]
               (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.
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