82R7272 AJZ-F
 
  By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 1280
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the payment of an examination fee to the attorney
  general for the legal sufficiency review of a comprehensive
  development agreement.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 371.051, Transportation Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 371.051.  ATTORNEY GENERAL REVIEW AND EXAMINATION FEE.
  (a) A toll project entity may not enter into a comprehensive
  development agreement unless the attorney general reviews the
  proposed agreement and determines that it is legally sufficient.
         (b)  A toll project entity shall pay a nonrefundable
  examination fee to the attorney general on submitting a proposed
  comprehensive development agreement for review.
         (c)  If the toll project entity submits multiple proposed
  comprehensive development agreements relating to the same toll
  project for review, the entity shall pay the examination fee under
  Subsection (b) for each proposed comprehensive development
  agreement.
         (d)  The toll project entity may collect or seek
  reimbursement of the examination fee under Subsection (b) from the
  private participant under the proposed comprehensive development
  agreement.
         (e)  The attorney general shall set the amount of the
  examination fee required under Subsection (b) and may adopt rules
  necessary to implement this section.
         SECTION 2.  The examination fee prescribed by Section
  371.051, Transportation Code, as amended by this Act, applies only
  to a comprehensive development agreement submitted to the office of
  the attorney general on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  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 September 1, 2011.