Bill Text: TX SB848 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on requiring a local government to provide compensation to the Texas Department of Transportation for certain potential or actual lost toll project revenue.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - Filed [SB848 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB848-Introduced.html
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| By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 848 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on requiring a local government to | ||
| provide compensation to the Texas Department of Transportation for | ||
| certain potential or actual lost toll project revenue. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 228, Transportation Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 228.0032 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 228.0032. PROHIBITION ON COMPENSATION FOR POTENTIAL OR | ||
| ACTUAL LOST TOLL PROJECT REVENUE. The department may not require a | ||
| local government, as defined by Section 228.0031, to provide | ||
| monetary compensation to the department or to otherwise bear the | ||
| cost of potential or actual lost toll project revenue resulting | ||
| from the construction, improvement, or use of adjacent nontolled | ||
| lanes or other road infrastructure that may compete with a toll | ||
| project. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
