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  By: Dale H.B. No. 361
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the construction of transportation projects by certain
  regional mobility authorities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 370, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 370.1791 to read as follows:
         Sec. 370.1791.  CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECT BY
  CERTAIN AUTHORITIES PROHIBITED. An authority may not construct a
  transportation project if the authority operates a turnpike project
  that does not provide at least one adjacent nontolled lane of
  frontage road for each direction of travel of the turnpike project.
         SECTION 2.  Section 370.1791, Transportation Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to a transportation project for which a
  contract for financing, construction, or operation is entered into
  on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect December 1, 2017.