By: Williams  S.B. No. 1283
         
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2009; March 17, 2009, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
  Security; March 31, 2009, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the supervision by the Texas Department of
  Transportation of money appropriated by the federal government for
  the construction and maintenance of rail facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 91.004, Transportation
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  Subsection (b) does not apply to money appropriated or
  allocated:
               (1)  to a transit authority described by Chapter 451, a
  transportation authority described by Chapter 452 or 460, or a
  transit department described by Chapter 453; or
               (2)  for use by:
                     (A)  a port authority or navigation district
  created or operating under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59,
  Article XVI, Texas Constitution; or
                     (B)  a district created under:
                           (i)  Chapter 171;
                           (ii)  Chapter 623, Acts of the 67th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6550c, Vernon's Texas
  Civil Statutes);
                           (iii)  Article 6550c-1, Revised Statutes; or
                           (iv)  Article 6550c-3, Revised Statutes.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Subsection
  (c), Section 91.004, Transportation Code, applies only to money
  appropriated or allocated on or after the effective date of this
  Act.  Money appropriated or allocated before the effective date of
  this Act is subject to the law in effect on that date, and that law
  is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2009.
 
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