80R2779 JTS-F
 
  By: Naishtat H.B. No. 504
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to payment for the provision of services by a metropolitan
rapid transit authority to persons with disabilities in a unit of
election that has withdrawn from the authority.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 451.616(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
       (a)  The comptroller shall withhold from the amount of sales
and use tax revenue refunded to a unit of election that has
withdrawn from an authority the full amount [one-half] of the
difference between the cost of providing services to persons with
disabilities in the unit of election and the fares charged during
the period in which the sales and use tax was collected and remit
this amount to the authority providing the services.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.