85R10249 MTB-D
By: Rodriguez of Bexar H.B. No. 3368
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of certain metropolitan rapid transit
authorities to receive funding from certain settlements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 451, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 451.114 to read as follows:
Sec. 451.114. SETTLEMENT ELIGIBILITY. (a) This section
applies only to a consent decree filed in the United States District
Court, Northern District of California, in the case styled In re:
Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, And Products
Liability Litigation, Case No. MDL No. 2672 CRB.
(b) An authority created before 1980 and in which the
principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million is
eligible to receive funding allocated to this state from an
environmental mitigation trust established under the terms of a
consent decree for eligible mitigation actions.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.