H.B. No. 1764

	AN ACT
	relating to the operation of metropolitan rapid transit
	authorities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 451.110(c), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a contract for:
	(1)  an amount less than or equal to the simplified
	acquisition threshold as defined by the Federal Acquisition
	Regulation (48 C.F.R. Section 2.101) or a successor regulation
	[$50,000 or less];
	(2)  the purchase of real property;
	(3)  personal or professional services; or
	(4)  the acquisition of an existing transit system.
	SECTION 2.  Section 451.111(a), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subchapter Q, unless the posting
	requirement in Subsection (b) is satisfied, a board may not let a
	contract that is:
	(1)  for more than the simplified acquisition threshold
	as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 C.F.R. Section
	2.101) or a successor regulation [$50,000]; and
	(2)  for:
	(A)  the purchase of real property; or
	(B)  consulting or professional services.
	SECTION 3.  Section 451.133(a), Transportation Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  An authority may not spend for capital improvements
	money in excess of the total amounts [amount] allocated for major
	capital expenditures in the current and preceding annual budgets of
	the authority [budget].
	SECTION 4.  Section 451.362, Transportation Code, is amended
	by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter and
	except as provided by Subsections (c), [and] (d), and (e), the
	board, by order or resolution, may issue bonds that are secured by
	revenue or taxes of the authority if the bonds:
	(1)  have a term of not more than 12 months; and
	(2)  are payable only from revenue or taxes received on
	or after the date of their issuance and before the end of the fiscal
	year following the fiscal year in which the bonds are issued.
	(e)  In an authority confirmed before July 1, 1985, in which
	the principal municipality has a population of less than one
	million, bonds may have a term of not more than 15 years.  The bonds
	are payable only from revenue received on or after the date the
	bonds are issued.
	SECTION 5.  Sections 451.455(h) and (i), Transportation
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(h)  The number of accidents per 100,000 miles is computed by
	multiplying the annual number of accidents by 100,000 and dividing
	the product by the number of miles for all service, including
	charter and nonrevenue service, [directly operated by the
	authority] for the same period. In this subsection, "accident"
	includes:
	(1)  a collision that involves an authority's revenue
	vehicle, other than a lawfully parked revenue vehicle, and that
	results in property damage, injury, or death; and
	(2)  an incident that results in the injury or death of
	a person on board or boarding or alighting from an authority's
	revenue vehicle.
	(i)  The number of miles between mechanical road calls is
	computed by dividing the annual number of miles for all service
	[directly operated by an authority], including charter and
	nonrevenue service, by the number of mechanical road calls for the
	same period. In this subsection, "mechanical road call" means an
	interruption in revenue service that is caused by revenue vehicle
	equipment failure that requires assistance from a person other than
	the vehicle operator before the vehicle can be operated normally.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1764 was passed by the House on May 9,
	2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 7, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 1764 on May 24, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 116, Nays 26,
	2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 1764 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
	2.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor