By Lindsay                                       S.B. No. 679

      75R6555 JD-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the requirement that a portion of the sales and use tax

 1-3     revenue collected by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities

 1-4     be used only for county and municipal road and bridge purposes.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 451.065, Transportation Code, is amended

 1-7     by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

 1-8           (g)  Not later than April 1 of each year, the board of an

 1-9     authority that imposes a sales and use tax shall distribute an

1-10     amount that is not less than 25 percent of the total revenue from

1-11     the sales and use tax that the authority collected during the

1-12     preceding calendar year to each municipality and county located in

1-13     the authority.  The board shall distribute the amount in proportion

1-14     to the revenue from the sales and use tax that was collected in

1-15     that year in each municipality and in the unincorporated territory

1-16     of each county.  Money received from the authority by a

1-17     municipality or a county may be used only for the performance of an

1-18     action described by Subsection (a).  This subsection applies only

1-19     to the board of an authority in which the principal municipality

1-20     has a population of more than 1.2 million.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.