Amend CSHB 1892 by adding the following SECTION to the bill, appropriately numbered, and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly: SECTION ____. Subchapter A, Chapter 228, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 228.012 to read as follows: Sec. 228.012. TOLL PROJECTS WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF REGIONAL TOLLWAY AUTHORITY. (a) This section applies only to a toll project located within the boundaries of a regional tollway authority under Chapter 366. (b) The tollway authority is the entity that has primary responsibility for the financing, construction, and operation of a toll project located within the boundaries of the authority. (c) To the extent authorized by federal law or authorized or required by this title, the commission and the department shall assist the tollway authority in the financing, construction, and operation of a toll project located within the boundaries of the authority by allowing the authority to use highway right-of-way owned by the department and to access the state highway system. (d) Subsections (b) and (c) do not limit the authority of the commission or the department to participate in the cost of acquiring, constructing, maintaining, or operating a turnpike project of the tollway authority under Chapter 366. (e) Before the commission or the department may enter into a contract for the financing, construction, or operation of a proposed or existing toll project any part of which is located within the boundaries of a tollway authority, the commission or department shall provide the authority the first option to finance, construct, or operate, as applicable, the portion of the toll project located within the boundaries of the authority: (1) on terms agreeable to the authority, without the requirement of any payment to the commission or the department; and (2) in a manner determined by the authority to be consistent with the practices and procedures by which the authority finances, constructs, or operates a project. (f) An agreement entered into by the tollway authority and the commission or the department in connection with a project under Chapter 366 that is financed, constructed, or operated by the authority and that is on or directly connected to the state highway system may not require the authority to make any payments to the commission or the department. (g) An agreement entered into by the tollway authority and the commission or department in connection with a project under Chapter 366 that is financed, constructed, or operated by the authority and that is on or directly connected to a highway in the state highway system does not create a joint enterprise for liability purposes. (h) Before a final contract execution by the department for any comprehensive development agreement project, the commissioners court for any county in which a majority of the project is located must pass a supporting resolution. (i) Once the authority or regional transportation council has received notice from the department relating to a toll project, the authority has 90 days to exercise the first option to finance, construct, or operate, as applicable, the toll project.