TITLE: Relating to an owner's or lessee's access to property through a Texas Department of Transportation highway right-of-way.

SUMMARY: Relating to an owner's or lessee's access to property through a Texas Department of Transportation highway right-of-way.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to an owner's or lessee's access to property through a Texas Department of Transportation highway right-of-way. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 203, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 203.113 to read as follows: Sec. 203.113. OWNER OR LESSEE ACCESS TO CERTAIN PROPERTY. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may not prohibit or otherwise restrict a person from accessing property the person owns or leases that: (1) is adjacent to a highway right-of-way; (2) could be accessed legally from the roadway before the department assumed authority over the right-of-way; and (3) was acquired or constructed before the department assumed authority over the right-of-way. (b) This section does not prohibit the department or the commission from acquiring a person's interest in property described by Subsection (a) through purchase, condemnation, or other means as authorized by Subchapter Dor other law. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.