LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              April 8, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Robert Junell, Chair, House Committee on
               Appropriations
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3190  by Puente (Relating to the allocation of revenue
               derived from certain fees and taxes among Texas
               Department of Transportation districts.), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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The bill would amend the Transportation Code by requiring the Texas
Transportation Commission (TTC), in consultation with the Governor's
Office of Budget and Planning, the Legislative Budget Board, and the
Comptroller of Public Accounts, to develop a method to quantify the
amount of tax and fee revenue subject to Section 7-a, Article VIII, Texas
Constitution, that would be derived from each district and appropriated
to the department.  The bill would also require the TTC to ensure from
its appropriations that an amount equal to at least 80 percent of the
revenue derived from a district would be spent on the department's
operations and projects in the district.  The bill would also require
each state or local governmental entity to provide the commission with
any information requested by the commission to implement provisions of
the bill

The bill would take effect September 1, 2001 and would require the TTC to
comply with the budgeting and spending requirements of the bill in the
biennium beginning September 1, 2003.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
  
  
Source Agencies:   601   Texas Department of Transportation, 301
                   Office of the Governor, 304   Comptroller of Public
                   Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, SD, RT, MW