TITLE: Relating to making an appropriation to the Texas Department of Transportation for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights of way for public roadways other than toll roads.

SUMMARY: Relating to making an appropriation to the Texas Department of Transportation for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights of way for public roadways other than toll roads.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to making an appropriation to the Texas Department of Transportation for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights of way for public roadways other than toll roads. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. The amount of $630 million is appropriated from the general revenue fund for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013, to the Texas Department of Transportation to be used only for the constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads. SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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.