Amend CSHB 3588, in ARTICLE 12 of the bill, by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ___. (a) Section 456.022, Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 456.022. FORMULA ALLOCATION [BY CATEGORIES]. The
commission shall adopt rules establishing a formula to allocate
funds to eligible public transportation providers. The formula may
take into account:
(1) the provider's performance;
(2) the number of passengers served by the provider;
(3) the need for public transportation by residents of
the provider's service area;
(4) the population, population density, and land area
of the provider's service area; and
(5) other factors established by the
commission [Under the formula program the commission shall
allocate:
[(1) 50 percent of the money to municipalities that
are:
[(A) designated recipients in urbanized areas or
transit providers eligible under Section 456.003 and not served by
a transit authority; and
[(B) designated recipients that are not included
in a transit authority but are located in urbanized areas that
include one or more transit authorities and received state transit
funding during the biennium that ended August 31, 1997; and
[(2) 50 percent of the money to designated recipients
in nonurbanized areas].
(b) Section 456.024, Transportation Code, is repealed.