85R8730 JTS-D By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1555 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to Texas Department of Transportation consideration of financially independent state highway toll projects. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 222, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 222.112 to read as follows: Sec. 222.112. CONSIDERATION OF FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT PROJECT REQUIRED. The commission by rule shall adopt procedures to require that, for each state highway system project proposed to be a toll project, including a managed lane project, the department consider financing and operating the project as financially independent and not part of a system. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.