| 1 | 1 | | 82R4465 JTS-F |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Guillen, Raymond H.B. No. 578 |
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| 4 | 4 | | |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to state financing of public transportation. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 456.003, Transportation Code, is amended |
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| 10 | 10 | | to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Sec. 456.003. PARTICIPATION INELIGIBILITY. A transit |
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| 12 | 12 | | authority is ineligible to participate in the formula or |
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| 13 | 13 | | discretionary program provided by this chapter unless the authority |
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| 14 | 14 | | was created under Chapter 453 or former Article 1118z, Revised |
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| 15 | 15 | | Statutes, by a municipality having a population of less than |
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| 16 | 16 | | 200,000 at the time the authority is created. |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 2. Section 456.006, Transportation Code, is amended |
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| 18 | 18 | | by adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), an urban transit |
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| 20 | 20 | | district that was not included in an urbanized area containing a |
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| 21 | 21 | | transit authority according to the 2000 federal decennial census |
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| 22 | 22 | | but, as a result of the 2010 federal decennial census urban and |
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| 23 | 23 | | rural classification, is included in an urbanized area that |
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| 24 | 24 | | contains one or more transit authorities may receive money from the |
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| 25 | 25 | | formula or discretionary program in an amount that does not exceed |
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| 26 | 26 | | the amount of funds allocated to the district during the fiscal |
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| 27 | 27 | | biennium ending August 31, 2011. This subsection expires August 31, |
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| 28 | 28 | | 2018. |
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| 29 | 29 | | (b-2) The population of a municipality that was considered |
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| 30 | 30 | | part of an urban transit district for purposes of the state transit |
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| 31 | 31 | | funding formula for the fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2011, but |
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| 32 | 32 | | that is included in a large urbanized area as a result of the 2010 |
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| 33 | 33 | | federal decennial census, continues to be considered part of the |
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| 34 | 34 | | urban transit district for purposes of the state transit funding |
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| 35 | 35 | | formula. This subsection expires August 31, 2018. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 456, Transportation Code, |
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| 37 | 37 | | is amended by adding Section 456.0221 to read as follows: |
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| 38 | 38 | | Sec. 456.0221. ALLOCATION TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS AFFECTED BY |
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| 39 | 39 | | NATURAL DISASTER. (a) The commission shall consider as an urban |
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| 40 | 40 | | transit district for the purposes of the allocation of funds under |
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| 41 | 41 | | this chapter a designated recipient: |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) that received money under the formula as an urban |
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| 43 | 43 | | transit district for the fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2011; |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) whose population according to the most recent |
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| 45 | 45 | | decennial census is less than 50,000; and |
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| 46 | 46 | | (3) whose population loss over the preceding 10-year |
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| 47 | 47 | | period is primarily the result of a natural disaster. |
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| 48 | 48 | | (b) This section expires August 31, 2018. |
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| 49 | 49 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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