H.R. No. 1803
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 new sections to the bill to read as follows:
SECTION 78. (a) Subchapter H, Chapter 201, Transportation
Code, is amended by adding Section 201.6011 to read as follows:
Sec. 201.6011. INTERNATIONAL TRADE CORRIDOR PLAN. (a) To
the extent possible, the department shall coordinate with
appropriate entities to develop an integrated international trade
corridor plan. The plan must:
(1) include strategies and projects to aid the
exchange of international trade using the system of multiple
transportation modes in this state; and
(2) assign priorities based on the amount of
international trade, measured by weight and value, using the
transportation systems of this state, including:
(A) border ports of entry;
(B) commercial ports;
(C) inland ports;
(D) highways;
(E) pipelines;
(F) railroads; and
(G) deepwater gulf ports.
(b) The department shall report on the implementation of
this section to the presiding officer of each house of the
legislature no later than December 1, 2004.
(b) This section takes effect September 1, 2003.
SECTION 79. (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: These additions are necessary to allow the
Texas Transportation Commission to establish a formula for
distribution of state grants to public transportation providers and
to allow the Texas Department of Transportation to develop an
international trade corridor plan to aid the exchange of
international trade.
Hill
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 1803 was adopted by the House on June
1, 2003, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House