81R3654 JAM-F
By: Guillen H.B. No. 4180
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the allocation of funds for public transportation by
the Texas Department of Transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 456, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 456.009 to read as follows:
Sec. 456.009. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. (a) The commission
shall adopt rules to allocate funds to designated recipients under
this chapter.
(b) Subject to Subsection (c), of the total amount of money
allocated under this chapter, the commission may not distribute:
(1) less than 90 percent of the total amount allocated
under the formula program provided by Subchapter B; and
(2) more than 10 percent of the total amount allocated
under the discretionary program provided by Subchapter C.
(c) The rules established by the commission under this
section must include a provision ensuring that no recipient of
state funding under Subchapter B or C receives an amount of funding
allocated under those subchapters that is less than the total
amount of state funding received under those subchapters in the
state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2004.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.