By: Huffines S.B. No. 637
(In the Senate - Filed January 27, 2017; February 13, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 27, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 27, 2017,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 637 By: Hall
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to audits of a regional mobility authority by the state
auditor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 370, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 370.318 to read as follows:
Sec. 370.318. AUDIT REQUIREMENT FOR DEPARTMENT GRANT OR
LOAN. The department may not make a grant or loan to an authority
for a transportation project unless the authority agrees in writing
to allow state audits of the authority at any time until the
completion of the transportation project for which the funds are
granted or loaned at the discretion of the legislative audit
committee established under Section 321.002, Government Code.
SECTION 2. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 321.024 to read as follows:
Sec. 321.024. REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITIES SUBJECT TO
AUDIT. A regional mobility authority under Chapter 370,
Transportation Code, is subject to audit under this chapter as if
the authority were a department.
SECTION 3. Section 370.318, Transportation Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a grant or loan agreement that is
entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant or
loan agreement that is entered into before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the agreement
was entered into, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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