By Lindsay S.B. No. 1872
76R12745 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sale of certain toll roads by certain political
1-3 subdivisions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 284, Transportation Code,
1-6 is amended by adding Section 284.009 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 284.009. SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED. (a)
1-8 This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8
1-9 million or more.
1-10 (b) A county may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll road
1-11 project to any other public or private entity if the project was
1-12 built using right-of-way acquired from the state.
1-13 (c) This section expires January 1, 2002.
1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 365, Transportation Code,
1-15 is amended by adding Section 365.016 to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 365.016. SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED. (a)
1-17 This section applies only to a district any portion of which is
1-18 located in a county with a population of 2.8 million or more.
1-19 (b) A district may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll
1-20 road project to any other public or private entity if the project
1-21 was built using right-of-way acquired from the state.
1-22 (c) This section expires January 1, 2002.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.