By: Howard H.B. No. 53
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to appropriating money to the Texas Department of
Transportation for the purpose of construction of, maintenance of,
and acquisition of rights-of-way for certain public roadways.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas
Department of Transportation by Senate Bill No. 1, Acts of the 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations
Act), the amount of $2,000,000,000 is appropriated out of the
economic stabilization fund to the department for the state fiscal
biennium ending August 31, 2015, for the purpose of construction
of, maintenance of, and acquisition of rights-of-way for public
roadways other than toll roads.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014, but only
if:
(1) the constitutional amendment proposed by House
Joint Resolution No. 1, Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, or similar
legislation of the 83rd legislature, 2nd Called Session, 2013, is
not approved by the voters; and
(2) this Act receives a vote of two-thirds of the
members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by
Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.