Bill Text: TX HB3368 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities to receive funding from certain settlements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Appropriations [HB3368 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3368-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 3368 | |
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| relating to the eligibility of certain metropolitan rapid transit | ||
| authorities to receive funding from certain settlements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 451, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 451.114 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 451.114. SETTLEMENT ELIGIBILITY. (a) This section | ||
| applies only to a consent decree filed in the United States District | ||
| Court, Northern District of California, in the case styled In re: | ||
| Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, And Products | ||
| Liability Litigation, Case No. MDL No. 2672 CRB. | ||
| (b) An authority created before 1980 and in which the | ||
| principal municipality has a population of less than 1.9 million is | ||
| eligible to receive funding allocated to this state from an | ||
| environmental mitigation trust established under the terms of a | ||
| consent decree for eligible mitigation actions. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
