SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance, Select 

TIME & DATE:  9:00 AM, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 

PLACE:        E1.016 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:        Senator Robert Nichols 

 

 

The Committee will meet to discuss:

 

1. The future reliability of all current state transportation funding sources.

 

2. Alternatives that may increase available state funding for transportation, including an examination of increases to current transportation-related funding streams and possible dedication of non-transportation related funding streams toward transportation.

 

3. The use of debt financing in state transportation funding, including the uses of the Texas Mobility Fund, and the effects on long-term transportation planning of using debt financing.

 

4. Alternative transportation funding options used nationally and internationally.

 

The Committee will hear invited testimony only.