LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 87TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
April 7, 2021

TO:
Honorable Robert Nichols, Chair, Senate Committee on Transportation
 
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
SB1727 by Nichols (relating to certain local government corporations created for the development, construction, operation, management, or financing of transportation projects.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend the Transportation Code to prohibit a county with a population of more than four million from creating a local government corporation to develop, construct, operate, manage, or finance a toll project or system located in the county.

Local Government Impact

According to the Department of Transportation, the bill could protect local transportation funds garnered by toll road-related revenues from being diverted to non-transportation projects.


Source Agencies:
601 Department of Transportation
LBB Staff:
JMc, AAL, CMA, ANE