Bill Text: TX HB904 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prohibition of tolls on portions of State Highway 146 and State Highway 99.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB904 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB904-Introduced.html
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| By: Cain | H.B. No. 904 | |
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| relating to the prohibition of tolls on portions of State Highway | ||
| 146 and State Highway 99. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter E, Chapter 228, | ||
| Transportation Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER E. LIMITATION ON TOLL FACILITY DESIGNATION, TOLL | ||
| COLLECTION, AND [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 228, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 228.202 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 228.202. TOLLS PROHIBITED ON PORTIONS OF STATE HIGHWAY | ||
| 146 AND STATE HIGHWAY 99. The department may not charge a toll, | ||
| either directly or indirectly through an agreement with another | ||
| entity, on: | ||
| (1) the portion of State Highway 146 that crosses the | ||
| Houston Ship Channel; or | ||
| (2) the portion of State Highway 99 between its | ||
| intersection with State Highway 146 and its crossing of Cedar | ||
| Bayou. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
