Bill Text: TX SB720 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prohibition of lane restrictions on a portion of Interstate Highway 635.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-07 - Filed [SB720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB720-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 720 | |
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| relating to the prohibition of lane restrictions on a portion of | ||
| Interstate Highway 635. | ||
| 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, LANE RESTRICTIONS, AND[ |
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| STATE HIGHWAY | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 228, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 228.208 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 228.208. LANE RESTRICTIONS ON PORTION OF INTERSTATE | ||
| HIGHWAY 635 PROHIBITED. Notwithstanding any other provision of | ||
| this subtitle, the department may not place a lane restriction, | ||
| including charging a toll or implementing managed lanes, either | ||
| directly or indirectly through an agreement with another entity, on | ||
| the portion of Interstate Highway 635 between its intersection with | ||
| Interstate Highway 30 and its intersection with U.S. Highway 75. | ||
| 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. | ||
