By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 399

(In the Senate - Filed December 21, 2016; February 1, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to nontolled lanes on a highway that has been converted from a nontolled highway to a toll project.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 228.201, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c) In determining the number of nontolled lanes required to comply with Subsection (a)(3), the department may consider only a general-purpose lane that is part of the highway and may not include a lane of a frontage road.

SECTION 2. Section 228.201(c), Transportation Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a highway reconstruction in accordance with Section 228.201(a)(3), Transportation Code, that is begun on or after the effective date of this Act. A reconstruction begun before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the reconstruction began, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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