SRC-MAX H.C.R. 38 75(R) BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research Center H.C.R. 38 By: Alexander (Cain) State Affairs 3-19-97 As Filed DIGEST The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) was created to sustain and enhance a strong national surface transportation network through the National Highway System and to expand other programs to ensure that states' transportation plans are intermodal, environmentally sound, and energy efficient. Under current federal transportation funding formulas some states receive more money than they pay into the program. Conversely, for every dollar Texas sends to Washington, D.C., from the motor fuel tax, the state receives 83 cents in return. Texas has recently joined a coalition of more than 20 states to develop the Streamlined Transportation Efficiency Program for the 21st Century (Step 21). This program would guarantee all states a 95 percent return on federal gasoline dollars sent to Washington, D.C., and would reduce government regulations on how states spend their transportation tax dollars. PURPOSE As proposed, H.C.R. 38 submits the following resolutions: To support the passage of the Streamlined Transportation Efficiency Program for the 21st Century (STEP 21). To cosponsor the ISTEA Integrity Restoration Act. Provides that the Texas secretary of state will forward official copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the Texas Congressional delegation with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.