Bill Text: TX HB3270 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of money in certain funding categories of the unified transportation program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Transportation [HB3270 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3270-Introduced.html
  88R3837 SRA-D
 
  By: Ortega H.B. No. 3270
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the allocation of money in certain funding categories
  of the unified transportation program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter P, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
  is amended by adding Section 201.9965 to read as follows:
         Sec. 201.9965.  ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN CERTAIN FUNDING
  CATEGORIES. (a)  In this section, "master plan" means the
  Texas-Mexico Border Transportation Master Plan developed by the
  department in collaboration with the border trade advisory
  committee and relevant federal agencies in the United States and
  the United Mexican States.
         (b)  The commission shall allocate money in funding category
  12 of the unified transportation program, or its successor
  strategic priority funding category established under Section
  201.991(b)(2) that awards money to projects solely at the
  discretion of the commission, to projects recommended in the master
  plan.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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