By Lindsay                                             S.B. No. 157
         76R3036 JD-F                           
                                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 Subsections (g) and (h) 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 25
1-10     percent of the sales and use tax revenue that the authority
1-11     collected during the preceding calendar year to each municipality
1-12     and county located in the authority.  The board shall distribute
1-13     the amount in consultation with the municipalities and the
1-14     counties.  Money received from the authority by a municipality or a
1-15     county may be used only for the performance in the territory of the
1-16     authority of an action described by Subsection (a) other than road
1-17     maintenance.  A municipality with a population of less than 1.2
1-18     million may contract with the county in which the municipality is
1-19     located, or with the principal municipality of the authority, for
1-20     the design, acquisition of necessary right-of-way, and construction
1-21     of a project under Subsection (a) that is to be located in that
1-22     municipality.  This subsection applies only to the board of an
1-23     authority in which the principal municipality has a population of
1-24     more than 1.2 million.
 2-1           (h)  Subsection (g) does not apply if, at an election called
 2-2     by the authority, a majority of the votes cast approve a
 2-3     proposition eliminating the requirement for distributions under
 2-4     Subsection (g).
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.