S.B.�No.�255
AN ACT
relating to reports and information provided by the Texas
Department of Transportation.
�������BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
�������SECTION�1.��Subchapter J, Chapter 201, Transportation Code,
is amended by adding Section 201.805 to read as follows:
�������Sec.201.805.REPORTS AND INFORMATION. (a)The department
shall annually publish in appropriate media and on the department's
Internet website in a format that allows the information to be read
into a commercially available electronic database a statistical
comparison of department districts and the following information,
calculated on a per capita basis considering the most recent census
data and listed for each county and for the state for each fiscal
year:
�������������(1)��the number of square miles;
�������������(2)��the number of vehicles registered;
�������������(3)��the population;
�������������(4)��daily vehicle miles;
�������������(5)��the number of centerline miles and lane miles;
�������������(6)construction, maintenance, and contracted routine
and preventive maintenance expenditures;
�������������(7)combined construction, maintenance, and
contracted routine and preventive maintenance expenditures;
�������������(8)the number of district and division office
construction and maintenance employees;
�������������(9)��information regarding grant programs, including:
�������������������(A)Automobile Theft Prevention Authority
grants;
�������������������(B)��Routine Airport Maintenance Program grants;
�������������������(C)��Public Transportation Grant Program grants;
�������������������(D)��Medical Transportation Program grants; and
�������������������(E)aviation grants or aviation capital
improvement grants;
�������������(10)��approved State Infrastructure Bank loans;
�������������(11)Texas Traffic Safety Program grants and
expenditures;
�������������(12)the dollar amount of any pass-through toll
agreements;
�������������(13)the percentage of highway construction projects
completed on time;
�������������(14)the percentage of highway construction projects
that cost:
�������������������(A)��more than the contract amount; and
�������������������(B)��less than the contract amount; and
�������������(15)a description of real property acquired by the
department through the exercise of eminent domain, including the
acreage of the property and the location of the property.
�������(b)The department shall include information from all
department contracts in the statistical comparison and information
reports required under Subsection (a).
�������(c)The department shall annually publish in appropriate
media and on the department's Internet website in a format that
allows the information to be read into a commercially available
electronic database the following information for each fiscal year:
�������������(1)the amount of money in the Texas Mobility Fund
itemized by the source of the money; and
�������������(2)��the amount of money received by the department:
�������������������(A)��itemized by the source of the money; and
�������������������(B)compared to the amount of money appropriated
by the legislature to the department in the General Appropriations
Act.
�������(d)The department shall annually publish in appropriate
media and on the department's Internet website in a format that
allows the information to be read into a commercially available
electronic database a list of each contract the department has
with:
�������������(1)a person required to register as a lobbyist under
Chapter 305, Government Code;
�������������(2)��a public relations firm; or
�������������(3)��a government consultant.
�������SECTION�2.��This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
______________________________ ______________________________
���President of the Senate Speaker of the House�����
�������I hereby certify that S.B.�No.�255 passed the Senate on
March�7,�2007, by the following vote: Yeas�30, Nays�0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May�21,�2007, by the
following vote: Yeas�30, Nays�0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate����
�������I hereby certify that S.B.�No.�255 passed the House, with
amendments, on May�17,�2007, by the following vote: Yeas�144,
Nays�0, two present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House���
Approved:
______________________________�
������������Date
______________________________�
����������Governor