1-1     By:  Lindsay                                          S.B. No. 1872
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 19, 1999; April 20, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 3, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; May 3, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Lucio
 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 1872 as follows:
 1-8     (1)  Strike Section 284.009(b) and substitute the following:
 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     (2)  Strike Section 365.016(b) and substitute the following:
1-15           (b)  A district may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll
1-16     road project to any other public or private entity if the project
1-17     was built using right-of-way acquired from the state without the
1-18     express written consent of and consultation with the Texas
1-19     Department of Transportation.
1-20                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21                                   AN ACT
1-22     relating to the sale of certain toll roads by certain political
1-23     subdivisions.
1-24           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 284, Transportation Code,
1-26     is amended by adding Section 284.009 to read as follows:
1-27           Sec. 284.009.  SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED.
1-28     (a)  This section applies only to a county with a population of 2.8
1-29     million or more.
1-30           (b)  A county may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll road
1-31     project to any other public or private entity if the project was
1-32     built using right-of-way acquired from the state.
1-33           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2002.
1-34           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 365, Transportation Code,
1-35     is amended by adding Section 365.016 to read as follows:
1-36           Sec. 365.016.  SALE OF CERTAIN TOLL ROADS PROHIBITED.
1-37     (a)  This section applies only to a district any portion of which
1-38     is located in a county with a population of 2.8 million or more.
1-39           (b)  A district may not sell or otherwise transfer a toll
1-40     road project to any other public or private entity if the project
1-41     was built using right-of-way acquired from the state.
1-42           (c)  This section expires January 1, 2002.
1-43           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-44     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-48     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-49     passage, and it is so enacted.
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