SRC-JBJ C.S.S.B. 192 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 192
77R10470 DWS-DBy: Lucio
Business & Commerce
3/28/2001
Committee Report (Substituted)


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, various ports-of-entry along the Texas-Mexico border are not
part of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, which direct future
transportation projects and systems in urbanized areas of the state.
C.S.S.B. 192 requires the Department of Transportation to include projects
relating to ports-of-entry for certain areas along the border in its
transportation improvement plan. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 201I, Transportation Code, by adding Section
201.710, as follows: 

Sec. 201.710.  PLANNING AND FUNDING OF PORTS-OF-ENTRY.  (a) Defines "port
of entry" and "project related to a port of entry." 

(b) Provides that this section applies only to a port of entry on the
border with the United Mexican States. Provides that this section does not
apply to a port of entry at an airport. 

(c)  Requires the Texas Department of Transportation (department) to
include projects related to ports of entry in its unified transportation
program or any successor to that program. 

(d) Requires a metropolitan planning organization that has a port of entry
within its jurisdiction to include projects related to ports of entry in
its transportation improvement plan. 

(e) Requires the department, in allocating money to projects, to fund
projects related to ports of entry from money other than North American
Free Trade Agreement discretionary funds. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  September 1, 2001.



SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1. Amends As Filed S.B. 192, Chapter 201I, Transportation Code, as
follows: 

 _Adds new proposed definitions "port of entry" and "project related to a
port of entry." 

  _Adds newly proposed Subsection (b) regarding applicability of section.

 _Adds newly proposed Subsection (d) regarding a metropolitan planning
organization. 

 _Makes  nonsubstantive changes in proposed Subsectons (c) and (e).