By:  Krusee                                                       H.B. No. 962


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to include in the unified transportation program a list of transportation projects that the department considers to be eligible for tolling or feasible for tolling. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 362, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 362.902 to read as follows: Sec. 362.902. INCLUSION OF TOLL PROJECTS IN UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM. The department shall adopt and include in the unified transportation program of the department a list of transportation projects in each department district that the department considers to be eligible and feasible for tolling. A transportation project that is included in the list is not required to be operated as a toll project. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.