Bill Text: TX HB2377 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the re-creation, funding, and uses of the off-highway vehicle trail and recreational area account.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to Appropriations [HB2377 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2377-Introduced.html
86R11021 SLB-D | ||
By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2377 |
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relating to the re-creation, funding, and uses of the off-highway | ||
vehicle trail and recreational area account. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.046, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
reenacted and amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.046. OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE TRAIL AND RECREATIONAL | ||
AREA ACCOUNT. (a) The off-highway vehicle trail and recreational | ||
area account is a separate account in the general revenue fund. | ||
(b) The department shall deposit to the credit of the | ||
off-highway vehicle trail and recreational area account all | ||
revenue, less allowable costs, from the following sources: | ||
(1) decal fees collected under Chapter 29; | ||
(2) fines assessed against persons operating | ||
off-highway vehicles in violation of Chapter 29 or any other law | ||
relating to the operation of off-highway vehicles; | ||
(3) all funding outside the general revenue fund | ||
received by the department under Section 29.007; [ |
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(4) revenue allocated for deposit to the account under | ||
Section 162.502, Tax Code; and | ||
(5) all interest that accrues to the account. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 11.047, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 11.047. USE OF OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE TRAIL AND | ||
RECREATIONAL AREA ACCOUNT. Money in the off-highway vehicle trail | ||
and recreational area account may be used only for expenditures | ||
necessary under Chapter 29 to: | ||
(1) acquire, construct, develop, and maintain trails | ||
and other recreational areas for use by owners and riders of | ||
off-highway vehicles as defined by Section 29.001; | ||
(2) provide access to those trails and recreational | ||
areas; | ||
(3) make grants under Section 29.008; [ |
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(4) establish an education and outreach program about | ||
the trails and recreational areas; | ||
(5) make safety information available on the trails | ||
and in the recreational areas; and | ||
(6) enforce and administer the off-highway vehicle | ||
trail and recreational area program, including by hiring law | ||
enforcement officers commissioned by the director to maintain the | ||
safety of the users of the trails and recreational areas. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 162.502(b) and (c), Tax Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The comptroller shall allocate and deposit these | ||
unclaimed refunds as follows: | ||
(1) 25 percent of the revenues based on unclaimed | ||
refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel used in motorboats shall be | ||
deposited to the credit of the available school fund; [ |
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(2) if the balance of the off-highway vehicle trail | ||
and recreational area account is projected to be less than $20 | ||
million at any time during a state fiscal biennium, 10 percent of | ||
the revenues based on unclaimed refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel | ||
used in motorboats shall be deposited to the credit of that account; | ||
and | ||
(3) the remaining portion of the revenues based on | ||
unclaimed refunds of taxes paid on motor fuel used in motorboats [ |
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general revenue fund. | ||
(c) Money deposited to the credit of the general revenue | ||
fund under Subsection (b)(3) [ |
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the Parks and Wildlife Department for any lawful purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |