Bill Text: TX HB5246 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Maverick County Regional Mobility Authority; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to Transportation [HB5246 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5246-Introduced.html
| By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 5246 | |
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| relating to the creation of the Maverick County Regional Mobility | ||
| Authority; authorizing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 370, Transportation Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter L to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER L. MAVERICK COUNTY REGIONAL MOBILITY AUTHORITY | ||
| Sec. 370.451. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "member | ||
| county" means Maverick County | ||
| Sec. 370.452. NATURE OF AUTHORITY. (a) The Maverick County | ||
| Regional Mobility Authority is an authority organized under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| (b) A provision of this chapter that requires the commission | ||
| to approve the creation of an authority does not apply to the | ||
| Maverick County Regional Mobility Authority. | ||
| Sec. 370.453. CONFLICTS WITH OTHER SUBCHAPTERS. In the | ||
| case of a conflict between this subchapter and other provisions of | ||
| this chapter or other law governing regional mobility authorities, | ||
| this subchapter controls. | ||
| Sec. 370.454. MEMBER COUNTIES. (a) The Maverick County | ||
| Regional Mobility Authority initially includes the following | ||
| county: | ||
| (1) Maverick County; | ||
| Sec. 370.455. BOARD OF DIRECTORS; TERMS. (a) The governing | ||
| body of the Maverick County Regional Mobility Authority is a board | ||
| of directors consisting of three representatives from the member | ||
| county. | ||
| (b) The commissioners court of the member county shall | ||
| appoint one director to serve on the board. | ||
| (c) The board shall elect either the director representing | ||
| Maverick County or the director of a future participating county as | ||
| the presiding officer. A director may not serve as presiding | ||
| officer for more than two consecutive years. | ||
| (d) Directors serve two-year terms, with as near as possible | ||
| to one-half of the directors' terms expiring on February 1 of each | ||
| year. | ||
| Sec. 370.456. INITIAL DIRECTORS. (a) Of the initial | ||
| directors, the terms of directors appointed to represent the | ||
| participating county expire February 1, 2025. | ||
| (b) Section 370.455(d) does not apply to an initial | ||
| director. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. Sections 502.402(a) and (b-1), Transportation | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) This section applies only to: | ||
| (1) a county that: | ||
| (A) borders the United Mexican States; and | ||
| (B) has a population of more than 250,000; [ |
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| (2) a county that has a population of more than 1.5 | ||
| million that is coterminous with a regional mobility authority; and | ||
| (3) a member county of the Maverick County Regional | ||
| Mobility Authority, as established under Subchapter L, Chapter 370. | ||
| (b-1) The commissioners court of a county described by | ||
| Subsection (a)(1) or (2) [ |
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| 700,000 may increase the additional fee to an amount that does not | ||
| exceed $20 if approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the | ||
| county voting on the issue at a referendum election, which the | ||
| commissioners court may order and hold for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2024, but only | ||
| if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 88th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2023, to authorize the creation of a regional | ||
| mobility authority by local law is approved by the voters. If that | ||
| constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act | ||
| has no effect. | ||
