By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 504

(In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 2007; April 3, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security; April 20, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 20, 2007, sent to printer.)

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of services by a metropolitan rapid transit authority to persons with disabilities in a unit of election that has withdrawn from the authority.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(a) The comptroller shall withhold from the amount of sales and use tax revenue refunded to a unit of election that has withdrawn from an authority the full amount [one-half] of the difference between the cost of providing services to persons with disabilities in the unit of election and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.

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