By: Carona  S.B. No. 255
         (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 2007; January 30, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and
  Homeland Security; February 13, 2007, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; February 13, 2007, sent to
  printer.)
 
 
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. 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 an electronic database a statistical comparison of department
  districts and the following information 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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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