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1	1	By: Lucio III H.B. No. 3915
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to administration and authority of the Automobile Burglary
7	7	and Theft Prevention Authority.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 1(2), Article 4413(37), Revised
10	10	Statutes, as amended by Chapters 308 (H.B. 1887) and 927 (H.B.
11	11	3225), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is
12	12	reenacted to read as follows:
13	13	(2) "Economic motor vehicle theft" means motor vehicle
14	14	burglary or theft committed for financial gain.
15	15	SECTION 2. Section 1(4), Article 4413(37), Revised
16	16	Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
17	17	(4) "Director" means the [executive] director of the
18	18	authority [Texas Department of Transportation].
19	19	SECTION 3. Sections 6(j) and (k), Article 4413(37), Revised
20	20	Statutes, are amended to read as follows:
21	21	(j) The authority shall:
22	22	(1) develop and use standard performance measures for
23	23	each category of grants provided by the authority in order to assess
24	24	grantee success in achieving the purposes of this article; and
25	25	(2) ensure that grants are used to help increase:
26	26	(A) the recovery rate of stolen motor vehicles;
27	27	(B) the clearance rate of motor vehicle
28	28	burglaries and thefts; [and]
29	29	(C) the number of persons arrested for motor
30	30	vehicle burglary and theft; and
31	31	(D) the criminal enforcement of statutes listed
32	32	in Section 1001.002(b), Transportation Code.
33	33	(k) The authority shall allocate grant funds primarily
34	34	based on the number of motor vehicles stolen in, [or] the motor
35	35	vehicle burglary or theft rate across, or the need to reduce
36	36	criminal violations of statutes listed in Section 1001.002(b),
37	37	Transportation Code, throughout the state rather than based on
38	38	geographic distribution.
39	39	SECTION 4. Section 6, Article 4413(37), Revised Statutes,
40	40	is amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
41	41	(l) The authority shall appoint a director to serve at the
42	42	pleasure of the authority. The director shall perform all duties
43	43	assigned by the authority.
44	44	SECTION 5. Section 7(b), Article 4413(37), Revised
45	45	Statutes, as amended by Chapters 308 (H.B. 1887) and 927 (H.B.
46	46	3225), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is
47	47	reenacted and amended to read as follows:
48	48	(b) The plan of operation must include:
49	49	(1) an assessment of the scope of the problems of motor
50	50	vehicle burglary or theft and economic motor vehicle theft,
51	51	including particular areas of the state where the problems are
52	52	greatest;
53	53	(2) an analysis of various methods of combating the
54	54	problems of motor vehicle burglary or theft and economic motor
55	55	vehicle theft;
56	56	(3) a plan for providing financial support to combat
57	57	motor vehicle burglary or theft, [and] economic motor vehicle
58	58	theft, and criminal violations of statutes listed in Section
59	59	1001.002(b), Transportation Code; and
60	60	(4) an estimate of the funds required to implement the
61	61	plan of operation.
62	62	SECTION 6. Section 8(a), Article 4413(37), Revised
63	63	Statutes, as amended by Chapters 308 (H.B. 1887) and 927 (H.B.
64	64	3225), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is
65	65	reenacted and amended to read as follows:
66	66	(a) Money appropriated to the department for authority
67	67	purposes shall be used by the authority to pay the department for
68	68	administrative costs and to achieve the purposes of this article,
69	69	including:
70	70	(1) establishing and funding the motor vehicle
71	71	registration program required by Section 9 of this article;
72	72	(2) providing financial support to law enforcement
73	73	agencies for economic motor vehicle theft enforcement teams;
74	74	(3) providing financial support to law enforcement
75	75	agencies, local prosecutors, judicial agencies, and neighborhood,
76	76	community, business, and nonprofit organizations for programs
77	77	designed to reduce the incidence of economic motor vehicle theft;
78	78	(4) conducting educational programs designed to
79	79	inform motor vehicle owners of methods of preventing motor vehicle
80	80	burglary or theft;
81	81	(5) providing equipment, for experimental purposes,
82	82	to assist motor vehicle owners in preventing motor vehicle burglary
83	83	or theft; [and]
84	84	(6) establishing a uniform program to prevent stolen
85	85	motor vehicles from entering Mexico; and
86	86	(7) providing financial support to law enforcement
87	87	agencies, local prosecutors, and judicial agencies for the criminal
88	88	enforcement of statutes listed in Section 1001.002(b),
89	89	Transportation Code.
90	90	SECTION 7. Section 11(a), Article 4413(37), Revised
91	91	Statutes, as amended by Chapters 308 (H.B. 1887) and 927 (H.B.
92	92	3225), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is
93	93	reenacted to read as follows:
94	94	(a) In this section, "motor vehicle theft rate" means the
95	95	ratio of motor vehicle burglaries or thefts in this state to the
96	96	number of motor vehicles in this state. The ratio shall be based on
97	97	statistical information provided by the Department of Public
98	98	Safety's uniform crime reporting division.
99	99	SECTION 8. Section 201.805(a), Transportation Code, is
100	100	amended to read as follows:
101	101	(a) The department shall annually publish in appropriate
102	102	media and on the department's Internet website in a format that
103	103	allows the information to be read into a commercially available
104	104	electronic database a statistical comparison of department
105	105	districts and the following information, calculated on a per capita
106	106	basis considering the most recent census data and listed for each
107	107	county and for the state for each fiscal year:
108	108	(1) the number of square miles;
109	109	(2) the number of vehicles registered;
110	110	(3) the population;
111	111	(4) daily vehicle miles;
112	112	(5) the number of centerline miles and lane miles;
113	113	(6) construction, maintenance, and contracted routine
114	114	and preventive maintenance expenditures;
115	115	(7) combined construction, maintenance, and
116	116	contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;
117	117	(8) the number of district and division office
118	118	construction and maintenance employees;
119	119	(9) information regarding grant programs, including:
120	120	(A) [Automobile Theft Prevention Authority
121	121	grants;
122	122	[(B)] Routine Airport Maintenance Program
123	123	grants;
124	124	(B) [(C)] Public Transportation Grant Program
125	125	grants;
126	126	(C) [(D)] Medical Transportation Program grants;
127	127	and
128	128	(D) [(E)] aviation grants or aviation capital
129	129	improvement grants;
130	130	(10) approved State Infrastructure Bank loans;
131	131	(11) Texas Traffic Safety Program grants and
132	132	expenditures;
133	133	(12) the dollar amount of any pass-through toll
134	134	agreements;
135	135	(13) the percentage of highway construction projects
136	136	completed on time;
137	137	(14) the percentage of highway construction projects
138	138	that cost:
139	139	(A) more than the contract amount; and
140	140	(B) less than the contract amount; and
141	141	(15) a description of real property acquired by the
142	142	department through the exercise of eminent domain, including the
143	143	acreage of the property and the location of the property.
144	144	SECTION 9. Sections 6(j) and (k), Article 4413(37), Revised
145	145	Statutes, as amended by this Act, apply only in relation to a grant
146	146	for which the notice of funds availability or of funding
147	147	opportunity is made public on or after the effective date of this
148	148	Act.
149	149	SECTION 10. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.