By: Carona S.B. No. 255

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to reports and information provided by the Texas Department of Transportation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 201, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 201.805 to read as follows:

Sec. 201.805. REPORTS AND INFORMATION. (a) The department shall annually publish in appropriate media and on the department's Internet website in a format that allows the information to be read into a commercially available electronic database a statistical comparison of department districts and the following information, calculated on a per capita basis considering the most recent census data and listed for each county and for the state for each fiscal year:

(1) the number of square miles;

(2) the number of vehicles registered;

(3) the population;

(4) daily vehicle miles;

(5) the number of centerline miles and lane miles;

(6) construction, maintenance, and contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;

(7) combined construction, maintenance, and contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;

(8) the number of district and division office construction and maintenance employees;

(9) information regarding grant programs, including:

(A) Automobile Theft Prevention Authority grants;

(B) Routine Airport Maintenance Program grants;

(C) Public Transportation Grant Program grants;

(D) Medical Transportation Program grants; and

(E) aviation grants or aviation capital improvement grants;

(10) approved State Infrastructure Bank loans; and

(11) Texas Traffic Safety Program grants and expenditures.

(b) The department shall include information from all department contracts in the statistical comparison and information reports required under Subsection (a).

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.