By: Luna S.B. No. 755
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to use of rubberized asphalt paving in road construction,
1-2 improvement, and maintenance projects.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 6674i-1, Revised Statutes, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Art. 6674i-1. RUBBERIZED ASPHALT PAVING <AWARDING OF CERTAIN
1-7 CONTRACTS>. (a) In this article:
1-8 (1) "Scrap tire" means a tire that can no longer be
1-9 used for its original intended purpose.
1-10 (2) "Rubberized asphalt" means an asphalt material
1-11 containing at least 10 <15> percent by weight of fine-ground rubber
1-12 obtained from <a reacted whole> scrap tires <tire>.
1-13 (b) The Texas Department of Transportation, a county, or a
1-14 municipality shall use rubberized asphalt in all road construction,
1-15 improvement, and maintenance projects requiring asphalt paving.
1-16 (c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall develop
1-17 specifications relating to the use of rubberized asphalt in road
1-18 construction, improvement, and maintenance projects and distribute
1-19 the specifications to all interested engineers, contractors, and
1-20 asphalt suppliers. The specifications shall:
1-21 (1) include penetrometer testing standards;
1-22 (2) require all hot mix asphaltic concrete and cool
1-23 mix asphaltic concrete pavement surfaces to contain 10 percent by
2-1 weight of fine-ground rubber obtained from scrap tires; and
2-2 (3) require all asphalt batch plants to maintain an
2-3 adequate supply of fine-ground rubber at all times.
2-4 (d) The Texas <If the State> Department of <Highways and
2-5 Public> Transportation, a county, or a municipality using <uses>
2-6 rubberized asphalt paving as required by this article shall<, the
2-7 department, county, or municipality electing to> use rubberized
2-8 asphalt manufactured from <shall use> scrap tires converted to
2-9 rubberized asphalt paving by a facility in this state if that
2-10 paving material is available.
2-11 (e) <(c)> In comparing bids submitted for road construction
2-12 that require paving, the department, county, or municipality may
2-13 give a preference to bids the paving materials portion of which
2-14 includes the use of rubberized asphalt paving made from scrap tires
2-15 by a facility in this state if the cost of those materials based on
2-16 life-cycle cost benefit analysis does not exceed by more than 15
2-17 percent the bid cost based on life-cycle cost benefit analysis of
2-18 alternative paving materials for the same job.
2-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.