85R21471 BEE-D
By: Israel H.B. No. 1764
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of metropolitan rapid transit
authorities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 451.133(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) An authority may not spend for capital improvements
money in excess of the total amounts [amount] allocated for major
capital expenditures in the current and preceding annual budget of
the authority [budget].
SECTION 2. Sections 451.455(h) and (i), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(h) The number of accidents per 100,000 miles is computed by
multiplying the annual number of accidents by 100,000 and dividing
the product by the number of miles for all service, including
charter and nonrevenue service, [directly operated by the
authority] for the same period. In this subsection, "accident"
includes:
(1) a collision that involves an authority's revenue
vehicle, other than a lawfully parked revenue vehicle, and that
results in property damage, injury, or death; and
(2) an incident that results in the injury or death of
a person on board or boarding or alighting from an authority's
revenue vehicle.
(i) The number of miles between mechanical road calls is
computed by dividing the annual number of miles for all service
[directly operated by an authority], including charter and
nonrevenue service, by the number of mechanical road calls for the
same period. In this subsection, "mechanical road call" means an
interruption in revenue service that is caused by revenue vehicle
equipment failure that requires assistance from a person other than
the vehicle operator before the vehicle can be operated normally.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.