[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3688 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3688

  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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 6, 2015

 Mr. Cuellar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 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:

``SEC. 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''.
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