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.

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