By:  Cain                                             H.B. No. 1942
       73R606 GCH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to distribution of funds for mass transportation.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3, Chapter 679, Acts of the 64th
    1-5  Legislature, 1975 (Article 6663c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
    1-6  is amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding
    1-7  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-8        (b)  The commission shall allocate the money <to two
    1-9  categories,> as follows:
   1-10              (1)  50 percent of the money must be allocated:
   1-11                    (A)  in urbanized areas that have a population of
   1-12  not less than 50,000 according to the most recent federal census
   1-13  and that are not served by an authority; and
   1-14                    (B)  in areas not part of an authority but
   1-15  located in urbanized areas that have a population of not less than
   1-16  50,000, according to the most recent federal census, and that
   1-17  include one or more authorities; and
   1-18              (2)  50 percent of the money must be allocated in urban
   1-19  areas with a population of less than 50,000, according to the most
   1-20  recent federal census, or in rural areas.
   1-21        (c)  Of the money allocated under Subsection (b)(1) of this
   1-22  section, the commission shall distribute <in each applicable
   1-23  urbanized area> an amount equal to the sum of:
   1-24              (1)  90 percent of the total amount to designated
    2-1  recipients that are operating transit systems in urbanized areas,
    2-2  each with a population of not less than 50,000, according to the
    2-3  most recent federal census, and are receiving funds in accordance
    2-4  with Section 1607a of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Act (49
    2-5  U.S.C. Section 1607a, Subsection (a)(1)); and
    2-6              (2)  10 percent of the total amount to designated
    2-7  recipients for federally assisted public transportation projects
    2-8  that are selected by the commission and are in urbanized areas,
    2-9  each with a population of not less than 50,000, according to the
   2-10  most recent federal census.
   2-11        (d)  The commission shall distribute the money apportioned
   2-12  under Subsection (c)(1) of this section in each urbanized area
   2-13  described by that subdivision in an amount equal to the sum of:
   2-14              (1)  one-half of the total amount allocated to that
   2-15  category multiplied by the ratio that the population of the
   2-16  urbanized area, excluding the population residing within the area
   2-17  of an authority, bears to the total population of all urbanized
   2-18  areas, excluding the population residing within the areas of
   2-19  authorities, in this state in that category; and
   2-20              (2)  one-half of the total amount allocated to that
   2-21  category multiplied by the ratio that the number of inhabitants per
   2-22  square mile of the urbanized area, excluding the number of
   2-23  inhabitants per square mile attributable to an authority, bears to
   2-24  the combined number of inhabitants per square mile of all urbanized
   2-25  areas, excluding the number of inhabitants per square mile
   2-26  attributable to authorities, in this state in that category.
   2-27        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-6  passage, and it is so enacted.