Amend CSHB 20 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. (a) Subchapter P, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 201.9992 to read as follows:
Sec. 201.9992. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN TOLL PROJECTS. The department may not include in the unified transportation program under Section 201.991 or the statewide transportation plan under Section 201.601 a project to convert a non-tolled highway to a tolled highway in accordance with Section 228.201(a)(3) unless the highway is reconstructed so that the number of non-tolled general-purpose lanes, not including frontage lanes, on the converted highway is greater than or equal to the number of those lanes in existence before the reconstruction.
(b) Section 201.9992, Transportation Code, as added by this section, does not apply to a project for which the Texas Department of Transportation or a local transportation entity has entered into a contract for the planning, design, or construction before the effective date of this Act.