Bill Text: TX HB3591 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation and use of certain funds for public transportation projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-19 - Referred to Transportation [HB3591 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3591-Introduced.html
By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 3591 |
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relating to the allocation and use of certain funds for public | ||
transportation projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 456.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivision (2-a) to read as follows: | ||
(2-a) "Direct recipient" means a municipality that: | ||
(A) receives money from the United States or this | ||
state for public transportation through the department or the | ||
Federal Transit Administration or the administration's successor; | ||
and | ||
(B) is located in an urbanized area with a | ||
population of more than 200,000, according to the 2010 federal | ||
decennial census: | ||
(i) that includes an urban transit district | ||
eligible to participate in the formula or discretionary program | ||
provided by this chapter but does not include a transit authority; | ||
and | ||
(ii) that is adjacent to an urbanized area | ||
with a population more than 4.9 million but less than 5 million, | ||
according to the 2010 federal decennial census. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 456.006(a), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A designated recipient that is a rural or urban transit | ||
district or municipal transit department or a direct recipient may | ||
use money from the formula or discretionary program and any local | ||
funds for any transit-related activity. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 456.022, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 456.022. FORMULA ALLOCATION. (a) The commission shall | ||
adopt rules establishing a formula allocating funds among | ||
individual eligible public transportation providers. The formula | ||
may take into account a transportation provider's performance, the | ||
number of its riders, the need of residents in its service area for | ||
public transportation, population, population density, land area, | ||
and other factors established by the commission. | ||
(b) The department may contract with a direct recipient to | ||
administer a portion of the funding awarded to an urban transit | ||
district. The department will divide the funding allocated by | ||
formula to the urbanized area in which the urban transit district is | ||
located between the urban transit district and the direct | ||
recipient, in the same ratio used by the Federal Transit | ||
Administration for its most recent allocation of funds to that | ||
urbanized area under Section 5307, Federal Transit Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |