By:  Krusee (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                            H.B. No. 962
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2005; 
April 18, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Transportation and Homeland Security; May 11, 2005, reported 
favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 11, 2005, 
sent to printer.)


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.                           



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