Bill Text: TX SB1778 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to funding for certain county transportation infrastructure projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-22 - Left pending in subcommittee [SB1778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1778-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1778 | |
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| relating to funding for certain county transportation | ||
| infrastructure projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle Z, Title 6, Transportation Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 473 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 473. STATE AND COUNTY TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE | ||
| Sec. 473.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Fund" means the transportation infrastructure | ||
| fund established under this chapter. | ||
| (2) "Transportation infrastructure plan" means a | ||
| comprehensive road construction, maintenance, and improvement plan | ||
| prepared by a county that includes transportation infrastructure | ||
| projects to be funded by grants under this chapter. | ||
| (3) "Transportation infrastructure project" means the | ||
| construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of transportation | ||
| infrastructure intended to alleviate degradation caused by the | ||
| exploration, development, or production of oil or gas. | ||
| Sec. 473.002. TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FUND. (a) The | ||
| transportation infrastructure fund is a dedicated account in the | ||
| general revenue fund. The fund consists of money transferred to the | ||
| credit of the fund under Subsections (b) and (c) and any interest or | ||
| other return from investment of money in the fund. | ||
| (b) If in the preceding fiscal year the state received from | ||
| oil production taxes a net amount greater than the net amount of oil | ||
| production taxes received by the state in the fiscal year ending | ||
| August 31, 1987, the comptroller shall transfer to the fund an | ||
| amount equal to 25 percent of the difference between those amounts. | ||
| (c) If in the preceding fiscal year the state received from | ||
| gas production taxes a net amount greater than the net amount of gas | ||
| production taxes received by the state in the fiscal year ending | ||
| August 31, 1987, the comptroller shall transfer to the fund an | ||
| amount equal to 25 percent of the difference between those amounts. | ||
| (d) The comptroller shall transfer the amounts described by | ||
| Subsections (b) and (c) not later than the 90th day after the date | ||
| of the end of a fiscal year for which a transfer is required under | ||
| those subsections. | ||
| (e) Money in the fund may only be appropriated to the | ||
| comptroller for the purposes of this chapter. | ||
| (f) Sections 403.095 and 404.071, Government Code, do not | ||
| apply to the fund. | ||
| Sec. 473.003. GRANT PROGRAM. (a) The comptroller shall | ||
| establish and administer a program to make grants from the fund to | ||
| counties for transportation infrastructure projects. A county | ||
| shall deposit proceeds from a grant received under the program in | ||
| the county's road and bridge fund. | ||
| (b) The amount of a grant provided to a county under the | ||
| program in a given fiscal year must be in proportion to the number | ||
| of oil and gas well completions in the county during the preceding | ||
| three calendar years compared to the total number of oil and gas | ||
| well completions in the state during the preceding three calendar | ||
| years as certified by the Railroad Commission of Texas. | ||
| (c) In applying for a grant under this section, a county | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) submit a transportation infrastructure plan, | ||
| including a budget for the plan; | ||
| (2) obtain approval of the transportation | ||
| infrastructure plan by the commission; | ||
| (3) describe the scope of the transportation | ||
| infrastructure projects to be funded by grants under this chapter, | ||
| including projects involving state highways maintained by the | ||
| department and roads maintained by the county; and | ||
| (4) state the amount of funding that the county will | ||
| provide for the transportation infrastructure projects. | ||
| (d) A transportation infrastructure plan submitted under | ||
| this section: | ||
| (1) must demonstrate that existing department and | ||
| county resources will be used to the extent possible; and | ||
| (2) may be amended, including by adding or removing | ||
| transportation infrastructure projects from the plan, with the | ||
| approval of the commission. | ||
| (e) A county that makes a second or subsequent application | ||
| for a grant under this chapter must: | ||
| (1) provide a copy of its annual audit; and | ||
| (2) certify that all previous grants are being spent | ||
| in accordance with the approved transportation infrastructure | ||
| plan. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
