Suspending limitations on conference committee
jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3184
By: Barrientos S.R. No. 1038
SENATE RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That the Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
House Bill No. 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:
Senate Rule 12.03(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.
_______________________________
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on June 1, 2003, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
_______________________________
Secretary of the Senate