1-1     By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 926
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     April 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the pooling of turnpike projects.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 361.331, Transportation
1-11     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12           (a)  After the authority conducts a public hearing in each
1-13     affected county, and with the approval of the commission, the [The]
1-14     authority may designate as a pooled turnpike project two or more
1-15     turnpike projects that are wholly or partly located in the
1-16     territory of:
1-17                 (1)  a metropolitan planning organization; or
1-18                 (2)  two adjacent districts of the department [as a
1-19     pooled turnpike project after:]
1-20                 [(1)  conducting a public hearing in each affected
1-21     county; and]
1-22                 [(2)  obtaining the approval of the commission].
1-23           SECTION 2.  Subsection (d), Section 361.331, Transportation
1-24     Code, is repealed.
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