Bill Text: TX HB1140 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the allocation categories for state funding of public transportation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1140-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation categories for state funding of public transportation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1140-Comm_Sub.html
By: Anderson of McLennan, et al. | H.B. No. 1140 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2017; | ||
May 1, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the allocation categories for state funding of public | ||
transportation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 456.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivisions (15) and (16) to read as follows: | ||
(15) "Large urbanized area" means an urbanized area | ||
with a population of 200,000 or more. | ||
(16) "Small urbanized area" means an urbanized area | ||
with a population of less than 200,000. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 456.021(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall allocate to large urbanized, small | ||
urbanized, and nonurbanized [ |
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under the formula program provided by this subchapter the amount | ||
appropriated from all sources to the commission each state fiscal | ||
biennium for public transportation, other than money from the | ||
United States and amounts specifically appropriated for | ||
coordination, technical support, or other administrative costs. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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