TO: | Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation |
FROM: | John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB578 by Guillen (Relating to state financing of public transportation.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend Chapter 456 of the Transportation Code to specify that an urban transit district, which may otherwise become ineligible to receive certain state public transportation funds as a result of the 2010 federal decennial census, may continue to receive an amount of state funding not to exceed the amount of funds allocated to the district during the 2010-11 state fiscal biennium. The bill would require the Texas Transportation Commission, for the purposes of the allocation of state public transportation funds, to consider as an urban transit district a district that (1) received money during the 2010-11 biennium under the small urbanized area formula, (2) whose population according to the most recent decennial census is less than 50,000; and whose population loss over the preceding 10-year period is primarily the result of a natural disaster. These provisions of the bill would expire on August 31, 2018.
Based on the analysis of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), it is assumed any costs or duties associated with implementing the provisions of the bill could be absorbed within the agency's existing resources.
Source Agencies: | 601 Department of Transportation
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LBB Staff: | JOB, KJG, MW, TG
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