By:  Lindsay                                          S.B. No. 1872
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the sale of certain toll roads by certain political
 1-2     subdivisions.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 284, Transportation Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 284.009 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 284.009.  SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED.
 1-7     (a)  This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8
 1-8     million or more.
 1-9           (b)  A county may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll road
1-10     project to any other public or private entity if the project was
1-11     built using right-of-way acquired from the state without the
1-12     express written consent of and consultation with the Texas
1-13     Department of Transportation.
1-14           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2002.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 365, Transportation Code,
1-16     is amended by adding Section 365.016 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 365.016.  SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED.
1-18     (a)  This section applies only to a district any portion of which
1-19     is located in a county with a population of 2.8 million or more.
1-20           (b)  A district may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll
1-21     road project to any other public or private entity if the project
1-22     was built using right-of-way acquired from the state without the
1-23     express written consent of and consultation with the Texas
1-24     Department of Transportation.
 2-1           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2002.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.