| 1 | 1 | | By: Williams S.B. No. 1283 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2009; March 17, 2009, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland |
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| 4 | 4 | | Security; March 31, 2009, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | 5 | | vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2009, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the supervision by the Texas Department of |
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| 11 | 11 | | Transportation of money appropriated by the federal government for |
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| 12 | 12 | | the construction and maintenance of rail facilities. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 91.004, Transportation |
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| 15 | 15 | | Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (c) Subsection (b) does not apply to money appropriated or |
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| 17 | 17 | | allocated: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) to a transit authority described by Chapter 451, a |
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| 19 | 19 | | transportation authority described by Chapter 452 or 460, or a |
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| 20 | 20 | | transit department described by Chapter 453; or |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) for use by: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (A) a port authority or navigation district |
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| 23 | 23 | | created or operating under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, |
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| 24 | 24 | | Article XVI, Texas Constitution; or |
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| 25 | 25 | | (B) a district created under: |
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| 26 | 26 | | (i) Chapter 171; |
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| 27 | 27 | | (ii) Chapter 623, Acts of the 67th |
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| 28 | 28 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 1981 (Article 6550c, Vernon's Texas |
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| 29 | 29 | | Civil Statutes); |
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| 30 | 30 | | (iii) Article 6550c-1, Revised Statutes; or |
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| 31 | 31 | | (iv) Article 6550c-3, Revised Statutes. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Subsection |
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| 33 | 33 | | (c), Section 91.004, Transportation Code, applies only to money |
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| 34 | 34 | | appropriated or allocated on or after the effective date of this |
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| 35 | 35 | | Act. Money appropriated or allocated before the effective date of |
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| 36 | 36 | | this Act is subject to the law in effect on that date, and that law |
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| 37 | 37 | | is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 39 | 39 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 40 | 40 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 41 | 41 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 42 | 42 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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| 43 | 43 | | * * * * * |
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