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TX HB5347

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/14/2025

Primary Sponsor

William Metcalf

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires toll project entities to construct at least one adjacent nontolled frontage road lane for each direction of travel when building a toll project along the route of a previously nontolled highway

  • Assigns maintenance responsibility for the nontolled frontage roads to the entity that previously had authority over the original nontolled highway

  • Exempts certain projects covered under Section 228.201 of the Transportation Code from this requirement

  • Applies only to toll projects with contracts for financing, construction, or operation entered into on or after September 1, 2025

  • Existing toll projects with contracts entered before the effective date remain governed by prior law

Legislative Description

Relating to the construction of nontolled frontage roads adjacent to certain toll projects.

Highways

Last Action

Left pending in subcommittee

4/28/2025

Committee Referrals

Transportation Funding Subcommittee4/7/2025

Full Bill Text

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