By: Lindsay S.B. No. 679 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the use of a portion of the sales and use tax revenue 1-2 collected by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities for 1-3 county and municipal road and bridge purposes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 451.065, Transportation Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) Not later than April 1 of each year, the board of an 1-8 authority that imposes a sales and use tax shall distribute not 1-9 less than 25 percent of the sales and use tax revenue that the 1-10 authority collected during the preceding calendar year to each 1-11 municipality and county located in the authority. The board shall 1-12 distribute the amount in consultation with the municipalities and 1-13 the counties. Money received from the authority by a municipality 1-14 or a county may be used only for the performance of an action 1-15 described by Subsection (a). A municipality with a population of 1-16 less than 1.2 million must contract with the county in which the 1-17 municipality is located, or with the principal municipality of the 1-18 authority, for the design, acquisition of necessary right-of-way, 1-19 and construction of a project under Subsection (a) that is to be 1-20 located in that municipality. This subsection applies only to the 1-21 board of an authority in which the principal municipality has a 1-22 population of more than 1.2 million. 1-23 (h) Subsection (g) does not apply if, at an election called 2-1 by the authority, a majority of the votes cast approve a 2-2 proposition eliminating the requirement for distributions under 2-3 Subsection (g). 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.