To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-3688
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2015-10-06
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Latin America

Mexico

Public contracts and procurement

Roads and highways

Texas
Latest action: action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-10-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill modifies the existing authority for the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande River near Rio Grande City, Texas. </p> <p>The authority, which currently expires 66 years after completion of the bridge, is made permanent and expanded to include the successors or assigns of the company. The bridge must not consist of more than 14 lanes. </p> <p>The company and its successors and assigns may use eminent domain to acquire certain land needed for the bridge, subject to Texas laws and requirements for just compensation and public proceedings. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3688 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 6, 2015 Mr. Cuellar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes.

1. Starr-Camargo Bridge Public Law 87–532 (76 Stat. 153) is amended— (1) in the first section, in subsection (a)(2)— (A) by inserting , and its successors and assigns, after State of Texas ; (B) by inserting consisting of not more than 14 lanes after approaches thereto ; and (C) by striking and for a period of sixty-six years from the date of completion of such bridge, ; (2) in section 2, by inserting and its successors and assigns, after companies ; (3) by redesignating sections 3, 4, and 5 as sections 4, 5, and 6, respectively; (4) by inserting after section 2 the following: 3. Rights of Starr-Camargo Bridge Company and successors and assigns (a) In general The Starr-Camargo Bridge Company and its successors and assigns shall have the rights and privileges granted to the B and P Bridge Company and its successors and assigns under section 2 of the Act of May 1, 1928 (45 Stat. 471, chapter 466). (b) Requirement In exercising the rights and privileges granted under subsection (a), the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company and its successors and assigns shall act in accordance with— (1) just compensation requirements; (2) public proceeding requirements; and (3) any other requirements applicable to the exercise of the rights referred to in subsection (a) under the laws of the State of Texas. ; and (5) in section 4 (as redesignated by paragraph (3))— (A) by inserting and its successors and assigns, after such company ; (B) by striking or after public agency, ; (C) by inserting or to a corporation, after international bridge authority or commission, ; and (D) by striking authority, or commission each place it appears and inserting authority, commission, or corporation .