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78R19484 MTB-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3184 (Hill/Barrientos)







By:  Hill                                             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	(b)  Section 456.024, Transportation Code, is repealed.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.