Bill Text: TX SB1644 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the operations of certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB1644 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1644-Engrossed.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 1644 |
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relating to the operations of certain metropolitan rapid transit | ||
authorities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. 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 amounts [ |
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capital expenditures in the annual budgets [ |
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SECTION 2. 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), [ |
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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 fee revenue received on or after the date the | ||
bonds are issued. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, [ |
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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 | ||
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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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |