SB848 - Relating to a prohibition on requiring a local government to provide compensation to the Texas Department of Transportation for certain potential or actual lost toll project revenue.

  89R7487 SRA-F     By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 848       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to a prohibition on requiring a local government to   provide compensation to the Texas Department of Transportation for   certain potential or actual lost toll project revenue.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Chapter 228, Transportation Code, is amended by   adding Section 228.0032 to read as follows:           Sec.   228.0032.     PROHIBITION ON COMPENSATION FOR POTENTIAL OR   ACTUAL LOST TOLL PROJECT REVENUE. The department may not require a   local government, as defined by Section 228.0031, to provide   monetary compensation to the department or to otherwise bear the   cost of potential or actual lost toll project revenue resulting   from the construction, improvement, or use of adjacent nontolled   lanes or other road infrastructure that may compete with a toll   project.          SECTION 2.  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, 2025.