H.R. No. 1739
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That House Rule 13,
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
resolve the differences on House Bill 3184, relating to the
financing, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation
of toll facilities by the Texas Department of Transportation, to
consider and take action on the following matter:
House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the
committee to add a new section to the bill to read as follows:
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 allocating
funds among individual eligible public transportation providers.
The formula may take into account a transportation provider's
performance, the number of its riders, the need of residents in its
service area for public transportation, population, population
density, land area, and 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(b) Section 456.024, Transportation Code, is repealed.
(c) This section takes effect September 1, 2004.
Explanation: This addition is necessary to allow the Texas
Transportation Commission to establish a formula for distribution
of state grants to public transportation providers.
Hill
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 1739 was adopted by the House on May
31, 2003, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House