81R11572 JD-F
By: Davis, Wendy S.B. No. 1233
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of certain money received by the Texas
Department of Transportation from certain transportation projects
or systems.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 228.005, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 228.005. REVENUE OF TOLL PROJECT OR SYSTEM. (a)
Except as provided by Subchapter C, toll revenue or other revenue
derived from a toll project or system that is collected or received
by the department under this chapter, and a payment received by the
department under a comprehensive development agreement for a toll
project or system:
(1) shall be deposited in the state highway fund,
except as provided by Subsection (b); and
(2) is exempt from the application of Section 403.095,
Government Code.
(b) In a region served by a metropolitan planning
organization that serves two adjacent counties that each has a
population of one million or more, revenue or a payment described
by Subsection (a) shall be deposited in an account designated by the
metropolitan planning organization, used for the purposes
specified by Sections 228.0055 and 228.006, and distributed in
compliance with those sections.
SECTION 2. Section 228.012(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The department shall hold money in a subaccount in trust
for the benefit of the region in which a project or system is
located and may assign the responsibility for allocating and
distributing money in a subaccount to a metropolitan planning
organization in which the region is located for projects approved
by the department. Except as provided by Subsection (c), money
shall be allocated and distributed to projects or to the
metropolitan planning organization for projects authorized by
Section 228.0055 or Section 228.006, as applicable.
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.