TITLE: Relating to toll project accommodation of high-occupancy mass transit facilities and vehicles.

SUMMARY: Relating to toll project accommodation of high-occupancy mass transit facilities and vehicles.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to toll project accommodation of high-occupancy mass transit facilities and vehicles. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 372.002 to read as follows: Sec. 372.002. ACCOMMODATION OF MASS TRANSIT FACILITIES AND VEHICLES. The governing body of a toll project entity may not adopt a plan for the construction of a toll project unless the plan includes measures for the toll project to accommodate high-occupancy vehicles of mass transit agencies, including buses and carpool and vanpool vehicles. Accommodations under this section must include: (1) land, capital funding, and operating costs for the construction and operation of park and ride facilities; and (2) the free use of the project by mass transit high-occupancy vehicles. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to a toll project for which an initial plan is adopted on or after September 1, 2017. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.