Bill Text: TX HB15 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing funding for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads; making appropriations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-08-05 - Referred to Transportation Funding, Select [HB15 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB15-Introduced.html
By: Harper-Brown | H.B. No. 15 |
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relating to providing funding for constructing, maintaining, and | ||
acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads; | ||
making appropriations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "biennial state taxes | ||
and fees general revenue estimate" means the amount of revenue | ||
stated in the comptroller's estimate provided in advance of the | ||
regular legislative session as required by Section 49a, Article | ||
III, Texas Constitution, that, based on the laws in effect at the | ||
time the estimate is made, is anticipated to be received by and for | ||
the state from collections of taxes and fees the revenue from which | ||
is anticipated to be deposited to the credit of the general revenue | ||
fund and is not set aside by law for a particular purpose or entity. | ||
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND: TEXAS | ||
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. The amount of $630 million is | ||
appropriated from the general revenue fund for the state fiscal | ||
biennium beginning September 1, 2013, to the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation to be used only for constructing, maintaining, and | ||
acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads. | ||
SECTION 3. APPROPRIATION FROM ECONOMIC STABILIZATION FUND: | ||
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. (a) On the 91st day of the state | ||
fiscal year beginning September 1, 2013, an amount of money equal to | ||
the amount by which transfers to the economic stabilization fund | ||
during the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2013, exceed the | ||
estimated amount of transfers to be made to that fund during that | ||
fiscal year as contained in the biennial state taxes and fees | ||
general revenue estimate for the state fiscal biennium ending | ||
August 31, 2013, is appropriated from the economic stabilization | ||
fund to the comptroller of public accounts for the purpose of | ||
immediately depositing that amount to the credit of the state | ||
highway fund. Money deposited to the credit of the state highway | ||
fund under this section is appropriated to the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, | ||
2015, for the purposes of constructing, maintaining, and acquiring | ||
rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads. | ||
(b) On the 91st day of the state fiscal year beginning | ||
September 1, 2014, an amount of money equal to the amount by which | ||
transfers to the economic stabilization fund during the state | ||
fiscal year ending August 31, 2014, exceed the estimated amount of | ||
transfers to be made to that fund during that fiscal year as | ||
contained in the biennial state taxes and fees general revenue | ||
estimate for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2015, is | ||
appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the | ||
comptroller of public accounts for the purpose of immediately | ||
depositing that amount to the credit of the state highway fund. | ||
Money deposited to the credit of the state highway fund under this | ||
section is appropriated to the Texas Department of Transportation | ||
for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2015, for the | ||
purposes of constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights-of-way | ||
for public roadways other than toll roads. | ||
(c) This section expires January 1, 2016. | ||
(d) This section takes effect only if this Act receives a | ||
vote of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the | ||
legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas | ||
Constitution. | ||
SECTION 4. DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN GENERAL REVENUE TO STATE | ||
HIGHWAY FUND. (a) On the 91st day of the state fiscal biennium | ||
beginning September 1, 2015, the comptroller of public accounts | ||
shall deposit an amount of money determined as provided by this | ||
subsection to the credit of the state highway fund. The amount of | ||
money deposited under this subsection is the amount by which | ||
revenue received by this state during the state fiscal biennium | ||
ending August 31, 2015, from collections of taxes and fees that is | ||
anticipated to be deposited to the credit of the general revenue | ||
fund and is not set aside for a particular purpose or entity exceeds | ||
the estimated amount of that revenue for that fiscal biennium as | ||
contained in the biennial state taxes and fees general revenue | ||
estimate for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2015. The | ||
amount of money deposited to the credit of the state highway fund | ||
under this subsection may not exceed $2,000,000,000. Money | ||
deposited to the credit of the state highway fund under this section | ||
may be used only for the purposes of constructing, maintaining, and | ||
acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways other than toll roads. | ||
(b) This section expires January 1, 2016. | ||
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. | ||
Except as otherwise provided by | ||
this Act: | ||
(1) 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; and | ||
(2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |