LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION April 29, 2011 TO: Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to enter into an agreement with a local government regarding the use of a transponder issued by the department and the corresponding electronic toll collection customer account to pay for parking services offered by the local government at a facility established by the local government under Chapter 22. The bill would prohibit the governing body of a home-rule municipality, by ordinance, from requiring a permit to park on a public street or alley of the municipality if the street or alley is located within 1,000 feet of the Capitol view corridor and has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less. The bill would authorize a commissioners court to set and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a road in the county at the request of the property owners that are adjacent to a privately maintained road in a subdivision. The bill also would lower the speed limit to not less than 20 miles per hour that the governing body of a municipality would be authorized to declare on a one-lane undivided highway if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe. According to TxDOT, any costs or duties could be absorbed within existing resources. Local Government Impact No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. Source Agencies:601 Department of Transportation LBB Staff: JOB, KJG, TP
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 82ND LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 29, 2011
TO: Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE:HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
TO: Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation
FROM: John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation
Honorable Larry Phillips, Chair, House Committee on Transportation
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
John S O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
HB2596 by Garza (Relating to the authority of local governments to enact and enforce certain traffic regulations.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to enter into an agreement with a local government regarding the use of a transponder issued by the department and the corresponding electronic toll collection customer account to pay for parking services offered by the local government at a facility established by the local government under Chapter 22. The bill would prohibit the governing body of a home-rule municipality, by ordinance, from requiring a permit to park on a public street or alley of the municipality if the street or alley is located within 1,000 feet of the Capitol view corridor and has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less. The bill would authorize a commissioners court to set and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a road in the county at the request of the property owners that are adjacent to a privately maintained road in a subdivision. The bill also would lower the speed limit to not less than 20 miles per hour that the governing body of a municipality would be authorized to declare on a one-lane undivided highway if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe. According to TxDOT, any costs or duties could be absorbed within existing resources.
The bill would amend the Transportation Code to authorize the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to enter into an agreement with a local government regarding the use of a transponder issued by the department and the corresponding electronic toll collection customer account to pay for parking services offered by the local government at a facility established by the local government under Chapter 22. The bill would prohibit the governing body of a home-rule municipality, by ordinance, from requiring a permit to park on a public street or alley of the municipality if the street or alley is located within 1,000 feet of the Capitol view corridor and has a posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour or less. The bill would authorize a commissioners court to set and enforce a speed limit of not less than 20 miles per hour on a road in the county at the request of the property owners that are adjacent to a privately maintained road in a subdivision. The bill also would lower the speed limit to not less than 20 miles per hour that the governing body of a municipality would be authorized to declare on a one-lane undivided highway if the governing body determined the prima facie speed limit was unreasonable or unsafe.
According to TxDOT, any costs or duties could be absorbed within existing resources.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
Source Agencies: 601 Department of Transportation
601 Department of Transportation
LBB Staff: JOB, KJG, TP
JOB, KJG, TP