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By: Ogden S.B. No. 53
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the financing and development of the Trans-Texas
Corridor and other transportation projects or programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 227.014, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) If the commission determines that the mobility needs of
this state would be most efficiently and economically met by
jointly operating two or more facilities as one operational and
financial enterprise, it may create a system composed of those
facilities. The commission may create more than one system and may
combine two or more systems into one system. The commission may
finance, construct, and operate [an] additional facilities
[facility] as an expansion of a system if the commission determines
that the facilities [facility] would most efficiently and
economically be constructed and operated if [it were a] part of the
system and that the addition will benefit the system. A system may
only include facilities included in a comprehensive transportation
corridor developed under a comprehensive development agreement, or
facilities located wholly or partly within the territory of[:
[(1)] a metropolitan planning organization[;] or
[(2)] two adjacent department districts. This section
does not prohibit the department from creating a system that
includes a facility that will extend continuously through the
territory of two or more metropolitan planning organizations or
more than two adjacent department districts.
SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 227.023, Transportation
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) To the extent and in the manner that the department may
enter into comprehensive development agreements under Chapter 361
with regard to turnpikes, the department may enter into a
comprehensive development agreement [agreements] under this
chapter that provides for the financing, development, design,
construction, or operation of a facility or a combination of [with
regard to] facilities on the Trans-Texas Corridor. All provisions
of Chapter 361 relating to comprehensive development agreements for
turnpikes apply to comprehensive development agreements for
facilities under this chapter, including provisions relating to the
confidentiality of information. Claims arising under a
comprehensive development agreement are subject to Section
201.112.
SECTION 3. Subchapter H, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 201.616 to read as follows:
Sec. 201.616. ANNUAL REPORT TO LEGISLATURE ON CERTAIN
MATTERS. (a) Not later than December 1 of each year, the
department shall submit a report to the legislature that details:
(1) the expenditures made by the department in the
preceding state fiscal year in connection with:
(A) the unified transportation program of the
department;
(B) turnpike projects and toll roads of the
department;
(C) the Trans-Texas Corridor;
(D) rail facilities described in Chapter 91; and
(E) non-highway facilities on the Trans-Texas
Corridor if those expenditures are subject to Section 227.062(c);
(2) the amount of bonds or other public securities
issued for transportation projects; and
(3) the direction of money by the department to a
regional mobility authority in this state.
(b) The report must break down information under Subsection
(a)(1)(A) by program category and department district. The report
must break down information under Subsections (a)(1)(B), (C), (D),
and (E) and Subsection (a)(3) by department district. The report
must break down information under Subsection (a)(2) by department
district and type of project.
(c) The report may be submitted in an electronic format.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect November 1, 2003.