TO: | Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1102 by Harper-Brown (Relating to the accommodation of pedestrians, bicyclists, persons with disabilities, children, senior citizens, users of public transportation, movers of commercial goods, and motorists on streets and highways.), As Introduced |
The bill would require the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to consider the needs of various road users, including bicyclists and pedestrians, in all aspects of transportation project development, operations, and maintenance. The bill would amend the Transportation Code to require the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) to adopt a written "complete streets policy" that provides certain guidelines for the development, construction, and maintenance of streets and highways to address the safety, accessibility, and mobility of certain road users as outlined by the bill. The bill would require the TTC to ensure that planning, design, construction, reconstruction, and street and highway improvement projects comply with the policy. The bill would require a local authority, as defined by the bill, to ensure that certain projects comply with the policy if state or federal funds are used. The bill would require a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) to ensure that any transportation improvement plan complies with the policy. The bill would specify certain projects and circumstances under which the policy would not apply, including projects for which costs for compliance with the policy would be excessively disproportionate to the present or future need or probable use of the particular street or highway. The bill would require the TTC or a local authority to certify that projects comply with the policy and approve any exemptions from the policy. The bill would require the TTC to publish a best practices report to describe how TxDOT, local authorities, and MPOs have changed their procedures to implement the policy and to list projects exempted from the policy.
Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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LBB Staff: | UP, AG, MW, TG, KKR
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