Honorable Mike Krusee, Chair, House Committee on Transportation
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB2682 by Solomons (Relating to the administration and powers of a coordinated county transportation authority.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
Because it is not known which eligible counties would create a transportation authority, which municipalities would approve an authority, what tax rate would be adopted, or when the tax would be implemented, the fiscal implications to the state cannot be determined.
The bill would amend Chapter 460 of the Transportation Code relating to the administration and powers of a coordinated county transportation authority. Chapter 460 applies to a coordinated county transportation authority in a county adjacent to a county that has a population of one million or more. While there are 24 counties that are adjacent to one of the four counties with a population of one million or more (including two that each have 1 million or more and are adjacent to one another), at this time the Denton County Transportation Authority is the only coordinated county transportation authority established in one of those counties.
Local Government Impact
Because it is not known which additional counties would create a transportation authority, which municipalities would approve an authority, what tax rate would be adopted, or when the tax would be implemented, the fiscal implications of the bill as it pertains to eligible counties other than Denton County cannot be determined. Because at this time the bill would not have statewide impact on units of local government of the same type or class, no comment from this office is required by the rules of the House/Senate as to its probable fiscal implication on units of local government.