By: Williams S.B. No. 1282
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2009; March 17, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
Security; March 31, 2009, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the powers of certain freight rail districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 171.053, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 171.053. INTERMUNICIPAL COMMUTER RAIL DISTRICT
POWERS. The governing bodies of the county or counties and of the
most populous municipality in the most populous county may provide
that the district may exercise the powers of an intermunicipal
commuter rail district created under Article 6550c-1, Revised
Statutes, including the powers related to a commuter rail facility,
by specifying in the concurrent order or ordinance creating the
district that those powers may be exercised by the district.
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 171, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 171.256 to read as follows:
Sec. 171.256. LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING. (a) Section
8(d), Article 6550c-1, Revised Statutes, relating to the limit on
payments made by a local government does not apply to a district to
which Section 171.053 applies.
(b) A district to which Section 171.053 applies may use
money paid to the district by a local government outside the
territory of the local government if the money is used for a public
purpose of the local government.
(c) A district to which Section 171.053 applies may pledge
money paid to the district by a local government to secure the
payment of a district debt.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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