By Siebert H.B. No. 1943
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Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the pooling of turnpike projects by the Texas Turnpike
1-3 Authority Division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 361.331, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 361.331. Pooled Turnpike Projects. (a) After
1-8 conducting a public hearing in each affected county and obtaining
1-9 the approval of the commission, the [The] authority may designate
1-10 as a pooled turnpike project two or more turnpike projects that are
1-11 wholly or partly located within the boundaries of:
1-12 (1) [in] a metropolitan planning organization; or
1-13 (2) two adjacent department districts [as a pooled
1-14 turnpike project after:]
1-15 [(1) conducting a public hearing in each affected
1-16 county; and]
1-17 [(2) obtaining the approval of the commission].
1-18 (b) All or parts of one or more existing turnpike projects
1-19 may be pooled with all or part of one or more new turnpike
1-20 projects.
1-21 (c) Turnpike projects designated as a pooled project are a
2-1 single turnpike project for purposes of this chapter.
2-2 [(d) A turnpike project may not be pooled more than once.]
2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.