Bill Text: TX HB4483 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute regarding the economic impact of navigation districts on the state and local economies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-15 - Referred to Transportation [HB4483 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4483-Engrossed.html
By: Lozano | H.B. No. 4483 |
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relating to a study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute | ||
regarding the economic impact of navigation districts on the state | ||
and local economies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) In this section, "institute" means the Texas | ||
A&M Transportation Institute. | ||
(b) The institute, in consultation with the comptroller of | ||
public accounts and the standing committees of the legislature with | ||
primary jurisdiction over the institute, shall study each | ||
navigation district and municipal utility agency responsible for a | ||
ship channel with a federally authorized depth of at least 35 feet | ||
in this state. | ||
(c) In conducting the study, the institute shall, for each | ||
navigation district and municipal utility agency: | ||
(1) analyze the district's and agency's: | ||
(A) assessment of fees imposed by the district or | ||
agency; | ||
(B) cargoes and commodities; | ||
(C) navigation safety; and | ||
(D) primary expenditures; and | ||
(2) collect the following information: | ||
(A) annual fee income; | ||
(B) consistency of fee income; | ||
(C) historical rate of growth in the previous 15 | ||
years for fee income; | ||
(D) fee income sources; | ||
(E) expenditures based on the following | ||
categories: | ||
(i) labor for maintenance and operations; | ||
(ii) materials for maintenance and | ||
operations; | ||
(iii) materials for expansion projects; | ||
(iv) consumables; | ||
(v) cost overruns; | ||
(vi) utilities; | ||
(vii) capital expenditures; | ||
(viii) project expenditures; and | ||
(ix) operating expenditures; | ||
(F) direct economic impacts to the state and | ||
local economies from the district's or agency's activities; | ||
(G) projected economic growth over the next 10 | ||
years; | ||
(H) an assessment of all import and export | ||
commodities; and | ||
(I) a comprehensive analysis of security and | ||
resiliency of cargoes, vessels, containers, and navigation. | ||
(d) The institute shall disaggregate the data described by | ||
Subsection (c) of this section by county. | ||
(e) Not later than December 1, 2024, the institute shall | ||
prepare a written report with the information described by this | ||
section, a summary of the institute's findings, and recommendations | ||
for legislative or other action and submit the report to the | ||
governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of | ||
representatives, and the chairs of the committees of the | ||
legislature with primary jurisdiction over the institute. | ||
(f) This section expires January 1, 2025. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |