Bill Text: TX SB2496 | 2023-2024 | 88th 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 - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Transportation [SB2496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2496-Introduced.html
| 88R3766 CXP-F | ||
| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 2496 | |
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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 intersection with | ||
| Interstate Highway 10. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
