1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 679 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 1997; February 24, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; May 12, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; 1-6 May 12, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 679 By: Lindsay 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the use of a portion of the sales and use tax revenue 1-11 collected by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities for 1-12 county and municipal road and bridge purposes. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 451.065, Transportation Code, is amended 1-15 by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows: 1-16 (g) Not later than April 1 of each year, the board of an 1-17 authority that imposes a sales and use tax shall distribute not 1-18 less than 25 percent of the sales and use tax revenue that the 1-19 authority collected during the preceding calendar year to each 1-20 municipality and county located in the authority. The board shall 1-21 distribute the amount in consultation with the municipalities and 1-22 the counties. Money received from the authority by a municipality 1-23 or a county may be used only for the performance of an action 1-24 described by Subsection (a). A municipality with a population of 1-25 less than 1.2 million must contract with the county in which the 1-26 municipality is located, or with the principal municipality of the 1-27 authority, for the design, acquisition of necessary right-of-way, 1-28 and construction of a project under Subsection (a) that is to be 1-29 located in that municipality. This subsection applies only to the 1-30 board of an authority in which the principal municipality has a 1-31 population of more than 1.2 million. 1-32 (h) Subsection (g) does not apply if, at an election called 1-33 by the authority, a majority of the votes cast approve a 1-34 proposition eliminating the requirement for distributions under 1-35 Subsection (g). 1-36 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998. 1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-42 * * * * *