TO: | Honorable Joseph Pickett, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB2096 by Wentworth (Relating to the creation of and the powers of a comprehensive multimodal urban transportation authority, including the power to impose taxes, issue bonds, and exercise limited eminent domain authority.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
The bill would add Subchapter R to Chapter 451, Transportation Code, to authorize the creation of an urban transportation authority in the City of San Antonio.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), assumes that because all the same authorities would exist within the urban transportation authority as currently exist with the individual entities, the only fiscal impact to TxDOT would be for amending rules, and that any associated costs could be absorbed within existing resources.
According to the Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA), it cannot be determined if the proposed authority would administer the local sales and use tax in a manner different from a predecessor authority; therefore, CPA assumes that fiscal impact of the bill on the state and units of local government cannot be determined. The CPA states that the agency would incur one-time techology costs in fiscal year 2010 for programming/project management related to provisions of the bill. Based on the agency's analysis, it is assumed those costs could be absorbed within existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 601 Department of Transportation
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LBB Staff: | JOB, KJG, SD, DB
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