Bill Text: TX SB2168 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to relief from local matching funds requirements for certain counties.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB2168 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2168-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to relief from local matching funds requirements for certain counties.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [SB2168 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2168-Comm_Sub.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 2168 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
April 4, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; April 4, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to relief from local matching funds requirements for | ||
certain counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 222.053, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a county is | ||
considered to be an "economically disadvantaged county" for the | ||
purposes of this section if it meets the criteria as laid out in | ||
Subsection (a) within the past six years and has been included in no | ||
less than five federally declared disasters within the same time | ||
period. | ||
(a-2) For a county described by Subsection (a-1), the | ||
adjustment to the local matching funds requirement shall be | ||
equivalent to the highest adjustment rate set in the last year the | ||
county was considered to meet the criteria described in Subsection | ||
(a). | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. | ||
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