Texas Transit Association

The Texas Senate is poised to pass their version of the General Appropriations Bill over the next several days. The Senate version will reduce public transit funding by some 29.1 percent from that version proposed by the Texas House of Representatives.

Rural transit districts will lose nearly $11 million and small urban transit districts nearly $6 million in public transit funding contained in the budget of the Texas Department of Transportation.

The texas Senate will hear the General Appropriations Bill on the floor of the Senate before passing it without amendment as has been their tradition, before moving the bill back to the House for either concurrence in Senate amendments, or to refuse to concur. The Texas House is expected to refuse the Senate version, a normal occurance, and then proceed to Conference Committee to work out differences.